‘The Rainbow’ Review: Yasumari Kawabata’s Quiet Revolution

Yasunari Kawabata was not the first modern Japanese novelist to be translated into English, but for many American readers he introduced a nation’s literary sensibility. When he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1968, he became the first Japanese laureate, an ascendancy that coincided with a cresting…

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