Interesting but I expected little more

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	• Snow Country (UNESCO Series of Contemporary Works: Japanese Series) Yasunari Kawabata Knopf, 1956 - 175 pages average customer review:based on 47 reviews
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highly recommended

Exploration of futile emotion

A great book, Snow Country and Beauty and Sadness started my obsession with Yasunari Kawabata.

I can't recommend it to everyone - one friend I pointed it out to called it immensely boring. It is definitely light on action. Kawabata's aesthetics drive this book. Read it as a poem

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Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.

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A Beautiful Story Set In Snow Country

Kawabata's novels retain timeless appeal for their lyricism, his aesthetic discourse over beauty, and his characters' inner struggles with human longing. In his classic Yukiguni (Snow Country), he paints a story of a discontent city-dweller who finds solace in a maiden's simple beauty and sporadic love for her temporary guest, which are only magnified by the harshness of a cold countryside tinged with icicles and a closed society's wrath. In what some may call the Japanese fashion, Kawabata invites the reader to imagine great depths of human emotion without using so many words.

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the master

As a teacher of comparative and literature (with a focus on poetry, but the novel as well), I feel confident in saying that Kawabata is a writer of such brilliant painterly effects (by which I mean I visual and emotional evocations), that I rank him at the very top of twentieth century writers in the world.

Interesting but I expected little more

If you love reading about geisha, nature, Japan and relation between man and a woman you can find the book satisfying, enjoyable. I was looking for more dynamism. In certain point I just got bored by the book.

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To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

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