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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1981, Paperback) 
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1981, Paperback)
Publisher: Perigee
Publication Date: 1981-07-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0399505253
ISBN-13: 9780399505256
Product ID: EPID2001700
Description: Often considered to be the masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning literary career, Yasunari Kawabata's SNOW COUNTRY was originally published in installments between 1935 and 1947. It details an affair between a Tokyo writer, Shimamura, who...
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Synopsis
Often considered to be the masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning literary career, Yasunari Kawabata's SNOW COUNTRY was originally published in installments between 1935 and 1947. It details an affair between a Tokyo writer, Shimamura, who is in the midst of a midlife crisis, and an aging provincial geisha named Komako. The novel is structured around Shimamura's periodic travels to visit Komako at a mountainous hot springs resort. While he begins to rely on these trips as a necessary escape from his monotonous life, Shimamura is also increasingly disturbed by the relationship, as he notes its ephemeral nature and questions how genuine Komako's feelings are for him. His meditations about the affair gradually approach a realization that, unfortunately, may undercut his blissful memories of Komako.

The story of the doomed love affair of a wealthy sophisticate, Shimamura, and the geisha Komako, at a mountain hotspring resort in western Japan, one of the snowiest regions on earth.

Details
Publication Date:1981-07-01

Size
Length:192 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
The power of love and illusion shape the lives of a young geisha and a rich Tokyo dilettante.

Industry Reviews
"'Snow Country' is distinctly superior to 'Thousand Cranes', I should think. If Kawabata is to be prized as a psychologist and more particularly for his female psychology, then there is more interesting psychology and more particularly female psychology to be found here. If he is to be prized as a stylist, as a prose writer in the tradition of haiku...then there are more haiku and more interesting ones to be found here."
New York Review of Books - D.J. Enright (04/27/1969)

"'Snow Country is a work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguihed and moving Japanese novels to have appeared in this century."
Waldron

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