Snow Country & Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata with Kazuo Ishiguro (Contributor), Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

204 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
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This book presents English translations of two short novels by the 1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Snow Mountain is a nuanced love story involving a discouraged urbanite (Shimamura) and a rural geisha (Komako). Shimamura is tired...

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