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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
A snow country geisha. A man who cannot love her fully.
For you if
you want to experience the Japanese aesthetic of impermanence through the most precise prose you will ever read
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A wealthy Tokyo man travels to a mountain hot spring resort in the snow country of northwestern Japan and falls into a relationship with a geisha — a woman who loves him completely and whom he loves with the detached appreciation of someone who collects beautiful things. Kawabata writes in a prose so compressed and imagistic that each sentence carries the weight of a paragraph. The dispatch from inside the Japanese aesthetic of mono no aware — the pathos of transience, the beauty of things precisely because they do not last. Nobel Prize winner. The most distilled Japanese sensibility on this shelf.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Japan • East Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Japanese author
- Themes
- Beautiful Wreckage
