House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories Pramoedya Ananta Toer his wife of thirty-seven years

his wife of thirty-seven years

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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories Pramoedya Ananta Toer his wife of thirty-seven yearsThree erotically charged short stories from Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the tales in this collection, Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata probes the interplay of erotic fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. In "House of the Sleeping Beauties," an old man pays to sleep with but not touch beautiful, sedated young girls; in "One Arm," a young woman gifts a man her right arm