This book includes two novellas "Snow Country" and "The Lake" by Kawabata Yasunari.
"Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's most representative work. Shimamura from Tokyo went to the snowy mountain village of Northland, met the geisha Komako, and was attracted by her beauty and innocence. On the second train to the Snow Country, Dao Cun met the girl Ye Zi by chance again and couldn't help but fall in love with this beautiful girl. Unknowingly, the three of them fell into a subtle love entanglement...
The protagonist Yinping in "The Lake" yearns for beauty because of his "ugliness", but ends up entering the "demon world" in the pursuit of beauty, which makes people deeply feel the pain of the fate of "ugliness" and the anxiety of seeking relief from beauty.
Reader comments
To be honest, I didn't see anything the first time I watched it. I just knew it was Shimamura's love, a selfish, shameful, and changeable love.
The love story described in this book is really touching! Just like a friend around me, he has been looking for true love, and there are sweetness and pain in the process. The author Kawabata Yasunari's writing is delicate and beautiful, making me feel like I am in a snow country and feel the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the protagonists. The innocence of Juzi and the beauty of the leaves made me worried about their fate. This book is really worth reading!
To be honest, I didn't see anything the first time I watched it. I just knew it was Shimamura's love, a selfish, shameful, and changeable love.
The love story described in this book is really touching! Just like a friend around me, he has been looking for true love, and there are sweetness and pain in the process. The author Kawabata Yasunari's writing is delicate and beautiful, making me feel like I am in a snow country and feel the joy, anger, sorrow and joy of the protagonists. The innocence of Juzi and the beauty of the leaves made me worried about their fate. This book is really worth reading!
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