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Original Title:	雪国 [Yukiguni]
ISBN:	0679761047 (ISBN13: 9780679761044)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Japan
Literary Awards:	Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (1961), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (1959)

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

Paperback | Pages: 175 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 17990 Users | 1733 Reviews

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Title	:	Snow Country
Author	:	Yasunari Kawabata
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 175 pages
Published	:	1996 by Vintage (first published 1948)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics. Literature. Asia. Romance

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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. 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.

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At first I found it difficult to know where to put this book and what to expect from it. We have three main characters: a well off, cultured, married middle age man who travels from Tokyo to the 'Snow Country' (a remote hot springs village in the far North and its surrounding); the man then meets a young woman (who later becomes a geisha due to livelihood problems) and the two of them develop a relationship almost instantly. As time pasts and seasons change, the middle age man travels to the

I engulfed myself in this cold, in this immaculate whiteness, with haste, in search of comfort, as my last reading had jostled me. I admit that I have not always grasped the feelings of the hero, I even had a little dry with him, but let myself be seduced by the poetry of words, the sensuality of Komako, the mystery of Yoko. .. A metaphorical, or even phantasmagoric pen that celebrates the nature (purificator) of this land of snow as an allegory of love. Two beings live a passion not ordinary,

If you like a ski read instead of a beach read, this is for you! The setting is the western mountain slopes of northern Japan, one of the snowiest regions of the world up to 15 feet of winter snow is common. In the town, the overhangs of buildings over the sidewalks form a tunnel through the snow in winter.We are told in the translators Introduction that the snow country geisha catering to the ski lodge and hot spring clientele in winter are second class geisha compared to the urban geisha in

(Mt. Fuji, Japan) "It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void." 'Snow Country' has one of the most beautifully descriptive proses I've read. It is a lot like the snow it spends so much time on: an intrinsic feeling of purity and truth runs in Kawabata's words, and the picture

Snow Country is the fourth novel by Kawabata that I've readafter Beauty and Sadness and The Sound of the Mountain, which were okay, and Thousand Cranes, which was very good. I think this one falls somewhere between the first two and the latter; it was nice to read, and there were some beautiful, poetic passages, but, in line with previous experiences, I found myself drawn more to the form and style of Kawabata's writing than to its substance. Furthermore, the repetitions of otherwise interesting

"In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted together into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girls face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible

This is the story of three different trips by Shimamura up into the Snow Country of Japan. Each trip occurs in a different season, and each in turn reflects his deepening involvement with a country geisha in a small village. While journeying by train there for his second visit he is struck by the beauty of a fellow passenger who by chance is traveling to the same village. As Shimamura gets more deeply involved, at least physically, with the geisha, he remains deeply intrigued by the other woman.