Snow Country

Synopsis

This masterpiece from the nobel prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of thousand cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western japan. • “kawabata’s novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time. ” —the new york times book review at an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome.