Kawabata, Yasunari
Snow Country
- ISBN 13:
- 9780679761044
- author:
- Kawabata, Yasunari
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Vintage Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1997
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 13.21 x 1.52 x 20.32 centimetres
- Genre:
- Modern fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Snow Country, a masterpiece by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata, is a powerful tale of doomed love set against the desolate beauty of western Japan.
At an isolated mountain hot spring, where snow blankets every surface, two individuals from different worlds come together in a passionate yet ultimately doomed affair. The result is a story dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
This stunning novel chronicles the course of their romance, exploring the complexities of human desire and the inevitability of heartbreak.
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