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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 Countryis 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
0141950161 / 9780141950167
eBook (EPUB)
06/01/2011
England
English
101 pages
198. x 129. mm
Copy: 10%; print: 10%