Snow Country

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ISBN: 9780679761044
author: Yasunari Kawabata
translator: Edward G. Seidensticker
book format: Paperback
publishing house: Vintage
publication date: 1996 -1
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.00
number of pages: 175

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Snow country

Yasunari Kawabata    translator: Edward G. Seidensticker

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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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