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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.
“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 Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” — The New York Times Book Review
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With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata 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.
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To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0140082131
- ISBN 13 9780140082135
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1986 reprint of a 1971 edition, adding the Ishiguro introduction. Japanese lyrical prose fiction in translation. 204 pp. Reduced from $32. Seller Inventory # 008405
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.Introduction by Kazuo Ishiguro. Penguin Modern Classics.Unread,page edges tanned,else very good. Seller Inventory # 030956
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Repint. Pages 203. pages yellowing Two stories. Translated from Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. Name and inscription crossed out on title page. Introduction by Kazo Ishiguro. Shelf wear to cover. The action in Thousand Cranes centres aqround an art which crystalizes the values of traditional Japan, the tea ceremony and Snow Country is set in the remote northern mountains of Honshu, and tells of the love between a local geisha and a man from Tokyo. Illustrated Cover. Seller Inventory # 005749
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