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Snow Country
  • Published: 28 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141950167
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
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Snow Country

  • Yasunari Kawabata
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Paperback
7 Mar 2011
Hardback
7 Feb 2023
EBook
28 Mar 2011
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A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
  • Published: 28 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141950167
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128
Categories:

Praise for Snow Country

Beautifully economical . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship

The Times Literary Supplement

Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time

The New York Times Book Review