Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata author Edward G Seidensticker translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Jan '11
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£9.99(9780241597361)
A tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan's literary master
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
Beautifully economical . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship * The Times Literary Supplement *
Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time * The New York Times Book Review *
ISBN: 9780141192598
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 7mm
Weight: 100g
128 pages