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Snow Country (1st Edition) by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-679-76104-7 / 0679761047 ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76104-4 / 9780679761044 Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer’s masterpiece: a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komak |