by Yasunari Kawabata · Noguer y Caralt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421721513
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«La casa de las bellas durmientes» is the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, published by Noguer y Caralt in paperback (156 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly Eguchi visits a secret house on the outskirts of Tokyo where older men can spend the night with young women drugged into sleep. As he contemplates their beauty, he recalls the women in his life and confronts old age, loneliness and desire in an atmosphere of unsettling serenity.
1989 edition in the Galería Literaria collection, translated by Pilar Giralt. The original Japanese is 'Nemureru bijo'; Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968.
For readers of Japanese literature and contemporary fiction seeking a short novel about old age, loneliness and desire.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
