WULOLIFE
Waltz of Flowers Author: [Japanese] Yasunari Kawabata Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
Waltz of Flowers Author: [Japanese] Yasunari Kawabata Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
"Waltz of Flowers" is a collection of classic short stories by Yasunari Kawabata, and together with "The Dancing Girl of Izu", it is hailed as "the most beautiful first love in the world."
Its name comes from the group dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and other fairies in Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. Hoshie and the orphan Suzuko developed a close attachment because of ballet. The beautiful youth of the girls is like twin flowers, competing for beauty in the spinning and jumping dance steps. At this time, Nanjo, who Suzuko had been waiting for, returned home miserably, and regained his life because of Hoshie's dance. All the seemingly existent love is entangled in a waltz...
The hardcover collector's edition of Kawabata Yasunari's classic work "Waltz of Flowers" includes 15 short stories including "Letter to Parents" and "One Arm", and especially includes the pinnacle work "Waltz of Flowers". The romantic binding of flowers and butterflies hides the beautiful and lingering youth of the girls.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) is a Japanese writer. He was born in Osaka. In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "keen feelings, superb narrative skills, and expression of the spiritual essence of the Japanese people." His representative works include "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "The Old Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Mountain Sound", "Sleeping Beauty", etc.