Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 March 2011
Pages
128
ISBN
9780141192598

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

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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