
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era
Donald Keene
Dawn to the West, a two-volume work covering the modern period in Japanese literature, is part of a larger work, Donald Keene's multi-volume history of the whole of Japanese literature.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Holt
- Year
- 1984
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Japanese literatureLiterary historyModern era literature
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1985)
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