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Publisher: Vintage

Author: Yasunari Kawabata

ISBN: 9780679761044

Classics, Fiction

Snow Country by
Yasunari Kawabata

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$ 600.00 mxn

Snow Country by

Yasunari Kawabata

Reviews

"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 Time Literary Supplement

Summary

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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