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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

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From Knopf / Vintage

VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICS

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata brings us the poignant tale of a fated affair between a man and woman seperated by class.
With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing gasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawataba tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako, who gives herself to him without regrets, knowing that their passion cannot last.

Shimamura is a dilettante of the feelings; Komako has staked her life on them. Their affair can have only one outcome. Yet, in chronicling its doomed course, one of Japan's greatest modern writers creates a novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. Snow Country is a genuine masterpiece of twentieth-century literature.