The house of the sleeping beauties, and other stories

He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the inn warned old Eguchi. From Japan's only Nobel laureate for literature, three superb stories exploring the interplay between erotic fantasy and reality in a loner's mind H o u s e o f t h e s l e e p i n g b e a u t i e s O n e a r m O f b i r d s a n d b e a s t s .