Snow Country
雪国
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A 20th century classic by Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari.
Written by Nobel Prize holder Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country is a classic of 20th-century Japanese literature. The story is a contemplation on love and its limits, told through the hopeless affair of a wealthy dilettante from Tokyo who is absorbed in his longing for an unobtainable, idealistic beauty and a rural geisha who is bound by rules of servitude and seclusion.
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) was a novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He established himself as one of Japan’s leading novelists during his life and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.
Size: L20 cm x W13 cm x H0.7 cm
128 pages
