TEHRAN – “The Old Capital” by Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata has recently been translated into Persian by Mahdieh Abbaspur.

The 1962 book tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, who finds out that she was stolen from her birth parents. She becomes more confused when she finds her identical twin sister.

Yasunari won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. He was the first Japanese author to receive the award.

Cheshmeh Publications in Tehran is scheduled to publish the book in the near future.

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