Kyoto, a novel by the Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata, follows Chieko, the daughter of a prestigious kimono designer, who upon turning twenty discovers that she was found as a newborn under some cherry trees and adopted by the people she thought were her parents. Set in the ancient Japanese capital, the novel delicately portrays the transmission of beauty and tradition between generations, and confronts the tensions of postwar Japan.

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1968, recognized for his subtle prose and aesthetic sensibility.

• Publisher: Seix Barral
• Author: Yasunari Kawabata
• Language: Spanish
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Classics / Japanese literature

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