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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679761047
ISBN-139780679761044
eBay Product ID (ePID)154679
Product Key Features
Book TitleSnow Country
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1996
TopicClassics, Small Town & Rural, General, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-032725
Reviews"Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship." - The Time Literary Supplement (London) "Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time." - The New York Times Book Review, "Beautifully economical. . . . The haiku works entirely by implication; so, in this novel, using the same delicate, glancing technique, Mr. Kawabata probes a complicated human relationship." -- The Time Literary Supplement (London) "Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time." -- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal895.6/344
SynopsisNobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPL832.A9Y813 1996
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- 13. Jun. 2017
pristine condition
Asian writing is foreign to me, but it is good to try and understand others' responses to life and its complications. Very poetic writing....Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Aug. 2021
good little book
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