Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go

Time: 1951

Place: Japan

Details: The book that Kawabata himself considered his finest work is The Master of Go (1951). It is a semi-fictional novel recounting of a major Go match in 1938, in which the game master loses to his younger competitive, symbolizing the defeat of Japan in World War II.

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