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Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1956
Originally in
Originally in Japanese
Pages
Pages 175

A wealthy Tokyo dilettante makes winter visits to a hot-spring town, where a mountain geisha loves him with an intensity he can admire but never return.

The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata

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