Snow Country

Author: Yasunari Kawabata

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 November 2022 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Little Clothbound Classics' series.

Hardback | 176 pages
117 x 168 x 19mm | 194g

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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