The Master of Go

Name: The Master of Go
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ISBN: 9781529982671

Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

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Vintage Classics
20 October 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Brief Encounters

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nobel Prize-Winner Yasunari Yawabata, and his remarkable fictional account of a world about to be cleft in two as two men battle to become the master of the strategy game, Go.

Luminous, suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating of two men - and a whole society - facing defeat.

Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, the strategy game Go is an expression of the Japanese spirit. But when a revered Master is challenged by a younger, more modern upcomer, their match, waged over several months and layered in ceremony, pits imperial Japan against the twentieth century.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS- classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

By: Yasunari Kawabata
Translated by: Edward G. Seidensticker
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781529982671
ISBN 10: 1529982677
Series: Brief Encounters
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20 October 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of Japan's most distinguished novelists. Born in Osaka in 1899, he published his first stories while he was still in high school. Among his major novels published across the world are Snow Country (1956), Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). Kawabata was found dead, by his own hand, in 1972.