Yasunari Kawabata

Records the struggles of the Master as he attempts to defend his title and ideals while playing a young challenger in the Japanese game of go

The Master of Go

Symbolic novel reporting a match of the Japanese game of go.

Ilse

I quite enjoyed this book, despite never having heard of this game. All the technical charts didn’t do much for me (though did look very pretty at the end), but I liked the factual accounts of this incredibly long game, and the entire culture around it. The characters were really portrayed well too, and I quite liked the writing style

The Master of Go

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