Fiction
Snow Country
Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante from Tokyo, travels by train through heavy snow to a hot-spring resort where he meets Komako, a geisha whose beauty and sadness are inseparable. Kawabata's novel is short and elliptical; much of the drama happens in pauses, in the sound of a room, in snow falling on a dark mountainside, and in glances that neither character can afford to explain.The Berkley paperback keeps the English text in print for readers who prefer their fiction distilled. Western Kamoura and the wasted love affair are rendered with the precision of a haiku, which is to say that the book tells you less than you want and exactly what you need. For readers who would rather be shown a room at dusk than told what happened in it.
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