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Nobel prize winner yasunari kawabatas snow country is widely considered to be the writers masterpiece. Buy the paperback book snow country by yasunari kawabata at indigo. The novel established kawabata as one of japans foremost. Yasunari kawabata author yasunari kawabata was born in osaka, japan, in 1899 and before the second world war had established himself as his country s leading novelist. The novel is considered a classic work of japanese literature and was among the three novels the nobel committee cited in 1968, when kawabata was awarded the nobel prize in literature.
Home results yasunari kawabata audio books sort by. Nobel prize recipient yasunari kawabatas snow country is widely considered to be the writers masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western japan. Snow country, the masterpiece of 1968 nobel laureate yasunari kawabata, deserves its place among the finest novels of the 20th century. I mention the translator because a nonjapanese speaker is totally dependent on the skill of the translator to capture the atmosphere, the nuances and the unspoken cultural aspects of the original japanese.
Snow country by yasunari kawabata snow country is the first fulllength novel by the nobel prizewinning japanese author yasunari kawabata. His best known work is probably a thousand cranes, published in 1952. Among his major works are snow country, a thousand cranes and the master of go. Snow country by yasunari kawabata the 2178th greatest. This blog runs in association with elucidaction his novels are among the most affecting and original of our time wrote the new york times book.
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Snow country explores the relationship, over the course of several years, between shimamura, a wellheeled married man with children who is able to live. Online book snow country by yasunari kawabata german. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of japan. Snow country by yasunari kawabata james reads books.
It tells the story of an affair between a geisha named komako and a man called shimamura. Snow country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in kawabatas exact, lyrical. The story of the doomed love affair of a wealthy sophisticate, shimamura, and the geisha komako, at a mountain hotspring resort in western japan, one of the. Snow country by yasunari kawabata overdrive rakuten. Snow country by yasunari kawabata takes place on the western coast of northern japan where geography and climate conspire to create a mountainous.
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