This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. – “Kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time.” —The New York Times Book Review
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages–a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1996
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780679761044
Language: English
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