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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan''s mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata''s masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.

''A work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels'' New York Herald Tribune

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 03/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9780241597361, 978-0241597361
      ISBN10: 0241597366
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

      Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan''s mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata''s masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.

      ''A work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels'' New York Herald Tribune

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