A novel by this author ends with the image of the Milky Way in the sky above a fire that engulfs a silkworm cocoon warehouse.
In a novel by this author, an aging man neurotically pulls out his gray hairs, but suddenly dies upon removing the last one. This author declared "however alienated one may be from the world, suicide is not a form of enlightenment" in his Nobel lecture, which he titled for his home country, "the Beautiful, and Myself." A novel by this author ends with the image of the Milky Way in the sky above a fire that engulfs a silkworm cocoon warehouse. In a novel by this author, an elderly businessman forgives his daughter-in-law Kikuko for aborting her pregnancy in protest of her husband Shuichi's affair with a war widow. In his best-known novel, a writer sees the disembodied face of the girl Yoko in the window of a train that he takes to a remote hot spring town, where he sleeps with the geisha Komako. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of The Sound of the Mountain and Snow Country.
In a novel by this author, an aging man neurotically pulls out his gray hairs, but suddenly dies upon removing the last one.
Yasunari Kawabata &lt;Long Fiction&gt;