by Yasunari Kawabata
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To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
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 Multi-layered thematic subtlety, 2008-11-17
It's hard to concretely describe what makes this book so profoundly insightful. It's confusing, frustrating, misleading, and vague--all qualities to make one either toss the book into the reclycing, or eat it. Yet, there reamins something mysterious and ineffably inherent which makes this book so mesmerizing.
I strongly recommend this book. An interest in Japan or background knowledge in Japan, is also a must I would say, for a more in-depth understanding.
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Exploration of futile emotion, 2008-08-22
A great book, Snow Country and Beauty and Sadness started my obsession with Yasunari Kawabata.
I can't recommend it to everyone - one friend I pointed it out to called it immensely boring. It is definitely light on action. Kawabata's aesthetics drive this book. Read it as a poem
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 Interesting but I expected little more , 2008-06-09
If you love reading about geisha, nature, Japan and relation between man and a woman you can find the book satisfying, enjoyable. I was looking for more dynamism. In certain point I just got bored by the book.
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A Beautiful Story Set In Snow Country, 2008-02-04
Kawabata's novels retain timeless appeal for their lyricism, his aesthetic discourse over beauty, and his characters' inner struggles with human longing. In his classic Yukiguni (Snow Country), he paints a story of a discontent city-dweller who finds solace in a maiden's simple beauty and sporadic love for her temporary guest, which are only magnified by the harshness of a cold countryside tinged with icicles and a closed society's wrath. In what some may call the Japanese fashion, Kawabata invites the reader to imagine great depths of human emotion without using so many words.
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Book Order, 2007-12-19
Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.
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