Yasunari Kawabata: the Master of Go

I decided to learn how to play Go a while back. 'course the first thing we should do is:

1. go online to Amazon
2. search for a training manual
3. buy, read and digest

During the process I came across this book; on the back it quotes "One of modern literature's greatest, most poignant elegies". Who could ignore that? So it got added to my shopping cart along with the "Learning Go" book.

But something must have been lost in translation with this book or am I just not getting it.

It is very easy to read being pretty close to journalese. The story is attractive and engaging; the characters too. And of course there is an indeterminate depth echoed by the Go match we are following. But sadly it did not work for me.
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