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      Snow Country

      by Yasunari Kawabata
      Published
      Jan 1960
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      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. â€¢ "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.

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      Jan 1960 Berkley ISBN13 9780425028377 ISBN10 0425028372
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      Dec 1972 Knopf ISBN13 9780394445915 ISBN10 0394445910
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