Snow Country Paperback - 1996
by Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
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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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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- Title Snow Country
- Author Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-01-30
- ISBN 9780679761044 / 0679761047
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.6 in (21.08 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
- Reading level 820
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Library of Congress subjects Japan, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95032725
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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