雪国
Snow Country has received favorable reviews at time of its publishing, as well as by later readers. The Times stated: "He has fashioned an idyll out of unpromising material", while Eileen Fraser of the "Times Literary Supplement" stated: "Mr. Kawabata's beautifully economical novel. This is a finely written book, excellently translated." Jason Cowley has called Snow Country as "..perhaps his finest work.".