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Snow Country

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192598

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £9.99

Snow Country

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, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192598

  • Length: 128  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 7mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 100g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.

Yasunari Kawabata

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