Snow Country
(Vintage International)
By Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
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Book Description
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 regretsContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 192 Pages
- Edition: 1st Vintage International Ed
- ISBN-10: 0679761047
- ISBN-13: 9780679761044
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jan 30, 1996
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780679761044 | Paperback | $13.95 | $10.04 | bn.com |
| $14.00 | $9.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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The Japanese Nobel
In the course of a recent tutorial on Paradise Lost I was reminded by a Chinese nun that we were not talking about God but only about Milton’s God. I must make it quite clear that I am now talking not about Kawabata but only about Seidensticker’s Kaw ... (read full critics)