Snow Country
of Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
Description
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 175 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date 1996
- First Publication 10/28/48
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679761044
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Japan']
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