Snow Country

About

Shimamura, a wealthy Tokyo dilettante, travels by train through the mountains to visit Komako, a geisha in a remote hot-spring town. He is drawn to her — her directness, her intensity, her refusal to perform the indifference he expects — but he cannot commit to anything beyond the visits themselves. She knows this. She comes anyway. Yasunari Kawabata's most celebrated novel is a study in wasted beauty and misdirected love, set against a landscape of snow and silence that mirrors the emotional distance between two people who want different things from each other. Every sentence is precise enough to hold the weight of what goes unsaid — a novel that proves less can devastate more thoroughly than excess ever could.

Awards

• ★Nobel Prize in Literature(1968 - Winner)