Snow Country & Thousand Cranes
1977 • 204 pages
Ratings18
Average rating3.3
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Ratings18
Average rating3.3
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata�s exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
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I enjoyed this book more and more as it went on. The thought processes sparked by this novella are never overtly stated yet clear. In addition, the book is written in a simple language. A recurring idea in this book: Sometimes, things are what they are and not what we want them to be, even if we are unaware of why or how.
