The Lake

Yasunari Kawabata · 1954 CE · Novel · Japanese · Contemporary

Gimpei, a teacher dismissed for pursuing a pupil, follows beautiful women through Tokyo without once speaking to them, ashamed above everything of his own ugly feet, and his mind keeps sliding back to a lake in the country and a cousin he loved as a boy. A woman he trails into a park drops a bag of money. Kawabata's most disquieting book, his drifting method put to a stalker's use.

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