Snow Country - Little Clothbound Classics
Snow Country - Little Clothbound Classics
hardback | English
Published:
3 November, 2022
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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. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.
'A work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels' New York Herald Tribune
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241597361 |
| ISBN10 | 0241597366 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 195 g |
| Product Dimensions | 117 x 170 x 19 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.