Status
Available
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Publication
Vintage (1996), Edition: Trade Paperback Edition, 175 pages
Description
Nobel Prize winner 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.
Media reviews
New York Herald Tribune
Snow Country is a work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving Japanese novels to have appeared in this country.
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Awards
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1935 - 1937 (serial)
1947 (book)
1957 (english translation)
Physical description
175 p.; 7.99 inches
ISBN
0679761047 / 9780679761044
LCC
PL832.A9 Y813