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Snow country Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1996.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: x, 175 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0679761047
Uniform titles:
  • Yukiguni. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.6/344 20
LOC classification:
  • PL832.A9 Y813 1996
Online resources: Review: "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.
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks PL<br>Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL 832.A9 KAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 100363
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"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.

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