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Snow Country (Vintage International) by Kawabata, Yasunari; Seidensticker, Edward G. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Snow Country (Vintage International) about?
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. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. 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. 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Who reads Snow Country (Vintage International)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kawabata, Yasunari; Seidensticker, Edward G.
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307833624
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (668 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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