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Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata's <i>Snow Country</i> 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.

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Tuttle Classics: Snow Country, Jasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker, 川端 康成, 康成·川端

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Pubblicato
2008
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(In brossura),
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In buone condizioni
Prezzo
93,99 €

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Titolo
Tuttle Classics: Snow Country
Pubblicato
2008
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
175
ISBN10
4805306351
ISBN13
9784805306352
Serie
Descrizione
Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata's <i>Snow Country</i> 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.