"Snow Country" Author: [Japanese] Yasunari Kawabata Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Subtitle: Yasunari Kawabata's Works 01

The most beautiful Nobel Prize-winning works in history, recommended by the Ministry of Education as must-read books for college students

A classic masterpiece by a master, a new hardcover collector's edition

Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Snow Country has influenced several generations of Chinese writers including Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Jia Pingwa.

A sentence from Kawabata Yasunari's "Snow Country" is like a beacon in the dark night, illuminating my way forward. - Mo Yan

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This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning work "Snow Country" and Kawabata Yasunari's classic work "The Lake".

The story begins on a train bound for the snowy country. The evening scene that keeps passing by the window reflects the eyes of the girl reflected on the glass, which is confusing. Dance art researcher Shimamura went to the snowy northern mountain village three times, and fell into love entanglement with the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who met by chance. The falling snow covered all love and futility...

"Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's highest representative work. The beauty of nothingness, purity and sadness depicted in it reach the extreme, which makes people's hearts beat and melancholy.

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) is a Japanese writer. He was born in Osaka. In 1968, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "keen feelings, superb narrative skills, and expression of the spiritual essence of the Japanese people." His representative works include "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Snow Country", "The Old Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Mountain Sound", "Sleeping Beauty", etc.