Japan

Snow Country

by Yasunari Kawabata

Nature & Landscape 1948

Summary

A wealthy dilettante from Tokyo travels repeatedly to a remote hot-spring resort in the mountains of northwest Japan and falls into a relationship with a geisha. Kawabata's spare, haiku-like prose captures beauty and transience.

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Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist and short story writer (1899–1972) and the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968). His lyrical, fragmentary style reflects traditional Japanese aesthetics and a profound sense of transience and beauty.

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1948
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Yasunari Kawabata