![]() ![]() Yet, in chronicling its doomed course, one of Japan’s greatest modern writers creates a novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. ![]() Shimamura is a dilettante of the feelings Komako has staked her life on them. The combination of the style, as well as the exploration I was taken. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako, who gives herself to him without regrets, knowing that their passion cannot last. Yasunari Kawabatas Snow Country is one of the most unique novels I have read in years. With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. ![]()
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