Rapturously praised by Mishima Yukio and Edward G. Seidensticker —
the masterpiece of Kawabata's eroticism.
A seaside inn with the roar of waves — a pleasure house for old men who had ceased to be men. In a room hung with crimson velvet curtains lay a young woman, nude and drugged into oblivion. Spending the night at her side, the old man's eyes gazed through the girl's dewy flesh and fixed themselves on the face of death drawing near.
This volume collects the celebrated novella "House of the Sl...
