I have become a massive fan of Japanese Nobel-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, ever since picking up the seminal novel "Snow Country" by chance. Initially I had no particular interest in any traditional Japanese sentiments or culture, but the poetic and graceful prose, the enchanting imagery, and the acute psychological insights of the writings enticed me to pick up his other works. Every work draws me deeper into this quiet vortex of emotional turbulence that pinches you in every direction days after closing the book. If you enjoy voluntarily losing yourself in streams of sensuous stimulation, reading about foreign cultural practices, or merely looking for "beauty", then join me in the next two weeks when I will share my love of all his major novels in a series of nine Instagram/Facebook posts. I don't intend to preach or indoctrinate, but I hope you will also find joy in discovering these transcendental writings that have kept me in awe in the past six months or so.
Yasunari Kawabata 川端康成 (1899 - 1972) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968 "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind".
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