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Snow Country

By Yasunari Kawabata
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is a poignant exploration of fleeting beauty and unfulfilled love. It follows the story of a wealthy Tokyo man who travels to a remote hot spring town, where he becomes entangled in a complex relationship with a geisha. Set against the backdrop of Japan's serene and snowy landscape, the novel captures the transient nature of desire and the melancholy of unattainable connection.
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This book may appeal to you if you appreciate beautifully crafted prose and are intrigued by the delicate exploration of unrequited love. It delves into the ephemeral beauty of life, set against the backdrop of a remote hot spring town in Japan. If you enjoy stories that artfully explore human emotions and cultural contrasts, you might find this a captivating read.

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Snow Country

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves.

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A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master.

Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them.

Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.

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Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is praised for its elegant and understated prose, evocative of a haiku's subtlety. Reviewers highlight its delicate exploration of complex human relationships, noting its impactful and distinctive narrative style. The novel is considered one of the most moving and unique works of its era.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141192598

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
  • Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 102g

Pages: 128

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About the Author

Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become a writer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and a year later made his first impact on Japanese letters with Izu Dancer. He soon became a leading figure the lyrical school that offered the chief challenge to the proletarian literature of the late 1920s. His writings combine the two forms of the novel and the haiku poems, which within restrictions of a rigid metre achieves a startling beauty by its juxtaposition of opposite and incongruous terms. Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959) brought him international recognition. Kawabata died by his own hand, on April 16 1972. Snow Country is translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (1921-2007), who was a prominent scholar of Japanese literature.

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