Wistful, delicate and beautifully understated, Kawabata’s novella of doomed love and the caprices of the human condition is the finest achievement by a figurehead of Japanese prose.
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Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241597361
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 200 g
Dimensions: 164 x 116 x 18 mm
Yasunari Kawabata’s literary masterpiece is beautifully bound in this cloth cover. I find the book itself deeply and complexly detailed with these gorgeous images and metaphorical allusions, however, this book itself... More
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