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House of the Sleeping Beauties
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
Original title眠れる美女
Nemureru Bijo
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
GenreNovella
Published1961
Media typePrint (paperback)

House of the Sleeping Beauties is a 1961 novella by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. It is a story about a lonely man, Old Eguchi, who continuously visits the House of the Sleeping Beauties in hope of something more.

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