Snow country
Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972.
Snow country Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1996. - x, 175 p. ; 21 cm.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0679761047
95032725
Fiction
PL832.A9 / Y813 1996
895.6/344
Snow country Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1996. - x, 175 p. ; 21 cm.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
0679761047
95032725
Fiction
PL832.A9 / Y813 1996
895.6/344