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Book Review of In Praise of Shadows

In Praise of Shadows
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This eloquent, thought sometimes perverse, essay on the Japanese sense of beauty by one of the most articulate of modern Japanese novelists is something everyone interested in Japan should read. I shall certainly recommend it to my students. The publishers of this book have given us a little gem. - Edwin McClellan, Yale University