Snow Country

By Yasunari Kawabata
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

By Yasunari Kawabata
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

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    About Snow Country

    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.

    About Snow Country

    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.

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    Nobel Prize WINNER 1968

    Praise

    “Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship.”
    —The Time Literary Supplement (London)
     
    “Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    About Yasunari Kawabata

    Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school,… More about Yasunari Kawabata

    About Yasunari Kawabata

    Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school,… More about Yasunari Kawabata

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 30, 1996 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679761044

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    Published by Vintage
    Feb 26, 2013 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307833624

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