Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Hardback Book 9780241597361

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.'A work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels' New York Herald Tribune

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Binding: Hardback Format: Hardback Genre: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Pages: 176 Page Count: 176 Publication Date: 2022 Year of Publication: 2022 Classification: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Weight: 314 g Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Country of Publication: United Kingdom Package Dimension Length: 11.7 cm Package Dimension Width: 16.8 cm Package Dimension Height: 1.9 cm ISBN: 9780241597361