It is a lovely story that brims with the fire of passion and then grows as ice cold as the snowy mountains in which it is set. Although the opening scenes depict the beginning of true, unblemished love, the book ends on the brink of tragedy for Shimamura and Komako – and Yoko as well. It initially appeared as a short story in a literary journal. To this haunting novel of doomed love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel between the main characters change as the book progress. A winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Snow Country (in Japanese, Yukiguani) was first published in various forms from 1935 through 1947, and comprises a significant part of his body of work. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature1 and was among the three. The two main characters, as well as Yoko, the pretty maid who comes between them, are searching for love, but their circumstances and their unrealistic hopes ensure they cannot find it and that only tragedy and deep despair for all three of them can ensure. Snow Country is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. Snow Country, perhaps the most of Yasunari Kawabata's classic Japanese novels, is a dazzling portrait of a country geisha, Komako, in a Japanese hot springs resort, as seen through the eyes of a wealthy dilettante, Shimamira. Snow Country is hardly a psychological novel in the conventional sense as some critics would make it out to be, and the emaciated plot' of a love affair between Tokyo art- loving dilettante Shimamura and the hot-spring geisha Komako has little importance as such.
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