Publisher's Synopsis
5 nights, 6 dreamlike sleeping girls, what will you see from them? Is it spring? Lust? Or is it your youth that has not yet died... Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, after "Snow Country" established its position in the literary world, it is a magical masterpiece that has stunned readers and literary critics! "Suffocating masterpiece of magical realism! The rotten aroma of overripe fruit exudes between the lines." Included: Yukio Mishima "Special Commentary" and "Sleeping Beauty" prequel "Flowers Withered" Tonight, will you become a Buddha? Or obsessed with one thought?