In one of this author's s
In one of this author's stories, Sayoko's letter to her mother reports how the titular defect angered her husband. In addition to writing "The Pomegranate" and "The Mole," this author created a character who writes the book A Girl of Sixteen about his affair with Otoko Ueno. Keiko Sakami ruins that character created by this author, Toshio Oki. This author of Beauty and Sadness wrote about a man who is an expert on Western ballet, despite never seeing one, in a novel that includes a fire in a silk-cocoon warehouse during a film screening. That novel by this author is about the love triangle between Yoko, the geisha Komako, and the businessman Shimamura. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain.
In one of this author's stories, Sayoko's letter to her mother reports how the titular defect angered her husband.
Yasunari Kawabata [accept names in either order]