Shōnen.

About Shōnen

Shōnen is a Japanese novel by Yasunari Kawabata. It was first published in a serialized form between 1948 and 1949 and later as a book in 1952. The work is based on a series of documents purportedly written by Kawabata during his youth and explores his attraction to an androgynous male schoolmate named Kiyono.