To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages -- a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness..
She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with Snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha.
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata\'s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer\'s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.
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 sadness.
To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature
