Books like The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A young monk becomes so obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto that he decides to destroy it.
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The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A gang of boys worship a sailor for embodying the heroic ideal, but when the sailor softens into domesticity, they decide he must be punished.
Spring Snow
A young Japanese aristocrat falls in love with the wrong woman in pre-war Tokyo, and the rigid codes of beauty and duty destroy them both.
Snow Country
A Tokyo dilettante travels to a hot-spring town in snow country to visit his geisha lover, and the cold landscape mirrors the impossibility of their connection.
Thaïs
Paphnuce, a desert monk in fourth-century Egypt, resolves to save the soul of Thaïs, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria he once desired.
The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Eighteen stories by the father of the Japanese short story, among them a servant sheltering from the rain in a ruined city gate and conflicting testimony about a killing in a grove.
Death in Venice
Gustav von Aschenbach, an ageing German writer on holiday in Venice, becomes infatuated with a beautiful Polish boy, Tadzio, and stays on as cholera spreads through the city.
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Four novellas, among them the title story of a very fat man who devotes himself to his brain-damaged son, and The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away.
The Woman in the Dunes
A man trapped by a sandstorm in a coastal village is forced to live with a woman at the bottom of a sand pit, shoveling endlessly to keep them both alive.
Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
Kokoro
A student in Meiji-era Tokyo befriends a withdrawn older man he calls Sensei, whose long final letter reveals the betrayal that hollowed out his life.