![]() ![]() This melancholy tale uses the classical tea ceremony as a background for the story of a young man's relationships to two women, his father's former mistress and her daughter - synopsis from Goodreads. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Snow Mountain is a nuanced love story involving a discouraged urbanite (Shimamura) and a rural geisha (Komako). This book presents English translations of two short novels by the1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. ![]() Book 130: Snow Country and Thousand Cranes.Īuthor: Yasunari Kawabata, 1948, 1952. ![]()
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