num_pages: 175
description: Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country 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.
language: English
title: Snow Country
titlecomplete: Snow Country
genres: Asia, Nobel Prize, Japanese Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 30850
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: -283968000000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Vintage