Snow Country (Vintage International)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 1956
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 179 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307833624
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780679761044
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 08/17/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Alfred A. Knopf inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Edward G. Seidensticker