

Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. It follows Shimamura who spends his vacation time at a isolated. 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. Snow Country is a beautiful novel from the Nobel prize winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata. From the cover blurb: ' Snow Country is a dazzling portrait of a country geisha in a Japanese hot-springs resort. Seidensticker, who also provided the Introduction.

His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today. This is the First American Edition of 'Snow Country' by the great Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata, published in 1956 by Alfred A. Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country (1981) PDF. Yasunari Kawabata ( ) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. 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. Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country (1981).pdf - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf) or read book online for free. Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Yasunari Kawabata, Shimamura is tired of the bustling city.
