by Yasunari Kawabata · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679761044
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Immerse yourself in the desolate beauty of western Japan with 'Snow Country', a masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. In a remote mountain hot spring, covered in snow, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante, meets Komako, a lowly geisha. Despite knowing that their passion cannot last, she gives herself to him completely. Kawabata narrates this doomed romance, creating a moving and implication-filled story that exalts in its sadness. An essential novel for lovers of Japanese literature and unforgettable love stories.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
