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Title: Snow Country
ISBN: 0679761047
Author:
Yasunari Kawabata
Publicate Date: 1996-01-30
Publish: 1996-01-30
List Price: $13.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Multi-layered thematic subtlety
It's hard to concretely describe what makes this book so profoundly insightful. It's confusing, frustrating, misleading, and vague--all qualities to make one either toss the book into the reclycing, or eat it. Yet, there reamins something mysterious and ineffably inherent which makes this book so mesmerizing.
I strongly recommend this book. An interest in Japan or background knowledge in Japan, is also a must I would say, for a more in-depth understanding.
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2: Exploration of futile emotion
A great book, Snow Country and Beauty and Sadness started my obsession with Yasunari Kawabata.
I can't recommend it to everyone - one friend I pointed it out to called it immensely boring. It is definitely light on action. Kawabata's aesthetics drive this book. Read it as a poem
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3: Interesting but I expected little more
If you love reading about geisha, nature, Japan and relation between man and a woman you can find the book satisfying, enjoyable. I was looking for more dynamism. In certain point I just got bored by the book.
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4: A Beautiful Story Set In Snow Country
Kawabata's novels retain timeless appeal for their lyricism, his aesthetic discourse over beauty, and his characters' inner struggles with human longing. In his classic Yukiguni (Snow Country), he paints a story of a discontent city-dweller who finds solace in a maiden's simple beauty and sporadic love for her temporary guest, which are only magnified by the harshness of a cold countryside tinged with icicles and a closed society's wrath. In what some may call the Japanese fashion, Kawabata invites the reader to imagine great depths of human emotion without using so many words.
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5: Book Order
Great service. Condition of book was stellar and it was delivered in a very timely manner.
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