The Lake
"... one senses here the presence of an intensely Japanese, yet universal, master of the erotic. " --SR/World"A work of so unusual a nature as to throw new light on the whole of Kawabata's distinguished career." --Donald Keene"Compact and immense ... hypnotic and shocking." --New York Times Book Review"Seizes the reader's imagination from the first page...." --Village Voice"This unusual and striking story probes the mysterious relation between beauty and evil." --Publishers Weekly