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  Snow Country (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Yasunari Kawabata

  

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  Short Description for Snow CountryTo this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sa
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 01 October 1997
  • Format: Paperback 175 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780679761044 ISBN 10: 0679761047
  • Sales rank: 36,395

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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.