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Snow Country

by Yasunari Kawabata · 1996 · 192 pages

Wong Kar Wai
Wong Kar Wai
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Wong Kar Wai

About This Book

A tale of wasted love set in a remote hot spring town in the Japanese Alps. The story follows the doomed romance between a wealthy Tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha against the backdrop of a stark, winter landscape.

Genres

Fiction & Literature

Topics

GeishaJapanLonelinessMelancholyRomanceWinter

Book Details

Published

1996

Pages

192

Language

ja

ISBN

9780679761044

Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Literature (Cited Work)

Audiobook Available

3h 56m
Narrated by Brian Nishi

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