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Eguchi, a sixtyseven year old man, arrives at a house, that is something like a brothel, where one can pay so as to be allowed to sleep beside a young woman. In the three long tales in this collection, yasunari kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three. They are made by kaiser of germany and are exquisite in detail and craftsmanship. The main attraction is the novella house of the sleeping beauties, one of kawabatas most famous pieces and one that has been adapted into multiple films, most recently australian filmmaker julia leighs 2011 sleeping beauty. The titular house is an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been.
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