| Snow Country Contributor(s): Kawabata, Yasunari (Author), Seidensticker, Edward G. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0679761047 ISBN-13: 9780679761044 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95032725 |
| Lexile Measure: 820 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.35 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |