![]() ![]() ![]() She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. The New York Times Book Review At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. Kawabatas novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time. Book Synopsis This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japans greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness. About the Book To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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