The Lake Author:Yasunari Kawabata, Reiko Tsukimura (Translator) "A Work of so unusual a nature as to throw new light on the whole of Kawabata's distinguished career. Readers who have inferred from previously translated novels that everything in Kawabata is delicate and understated will be surprised and perhaps shocked by the brutal sensuality of some of the scenes." -- Donald Keene, Columbia University — Firs... more »t published in 1974, the Kodansha 1980 edition bears ISBN 0870113658, and JBC 1093-786973-2361.« less