In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

《雪国》，侍桁译本。“二十世纪外国文学丛书”一种。译笔明丽，意境渺远，在众译本中最靠近原著风格。十分可读。包括《雪国》与《伊豆的歌女》