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Description: With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako, who gives herself to him without regrets, knowing that their passion cannot last. Shimamura is a dilettante of the feelings; Komako has staked her life on them. Their affair can have only one outcome. Yet, in chronicling its doomed course, one of Japan's greatest modern writers creates a novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1960.
Call number: 654992
Creator: Kawabata, Yasunari (1899-1972)

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Provenance

Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.

Dimensions

18 cm

Associated people

Seidensticker, Edward, (1921-2007,)

Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,)

Hong, Mabel, (1907-1998,)

Hong, Roger S., (1941-2006,)

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