Used book – The House of the Sleeping Beauties, Yasunari Kawabata, R. Sieffert

What kind of world did old Eguchi enter when he crossed the threshold of the House of the Sleeping Beauties? This novel, published in 1961, describes the quest of old men in search of pleasure. In a mysterious dwelling, they come to spend a night alongside teenage girls asleep under the influence of powerful narcotics.

For Eguchi, these nights spent in the chamber of delights will allow him to remember the women of his youth, and to immerse himself in long meditations. To reach, who knows? at the threshold of death, the sweetness of childhood and the forgiveness of his sins.