Snow Country
β Scribed by Kawabata, Yasunari
- Book ID
- 108511106
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307833624
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β¦ Synopsis
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabataβs Snow Country is widely considered to be the writerβs 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 β a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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