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Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, IPA: [jɯkiꜜɡɯɲi]) is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Yasunari Kawabata
- 1948
Nobel Prize recipient 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.
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Jan 30, 1996 · This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. • “Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” —The New York Times Book Review.
- Yasunari Kawabata
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- Vintage
Dec 12, 2019 · Snow Country is a 1948 novel by Yasunari Kawabata, set in a frozen landscape where a man named Shimamura has a melancholy affair with a geisha named Komako. The novel explores themes of beauty, tragedy, and wasted effort, and draws on traditional Japanese forms of writing.
Jul 15, 2017 · Snow Country is a story of a doomed love affair between a city man and a rural geisha in the remote mountain hot springs of western Japan. The novel, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, is evocative and beautiful, conveying the beauty and melancholy of the snow country and the characters' flaws and struggles.
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.
Oct 15, 2011 · Snow Country is about a man named Shimamura who travels to the snow country to meet a hot springs geisha named Komako. The novel begins during Shimamura’s second trip to Niigata as his train emerges from a mountain tunnel into the open air:
