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Yasunari Kawabata

The Master of Go

1951
Japan

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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