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Snow country

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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.

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Penguin Classics
0141192593 / 9780141192598
Paperback / softback
06/01/2011
United Kingdom
English
General
120 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Translated from the Japanese This translation originally published: New York: Knopf, 1956.