Collection
Genres
Status
Available
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.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 1996.
ISBN
0679761047 / 9780679761044
Pages
x; 175
Language
Original language
Japanese
Original publication date
1935 - 1937 (serial)
1947 (book)
1957 (english translation)