Snow Country

This book collects two novellas "Snow Country" and "Thousand Cranes" by Kawabata Yasunari. "Snow Country" describes the emotional entanglement between Shimamura, a dance art researcher, who went to a hot spring hotel in Snow Country three times, and a local geisha named Komako, and a girl named Ye Zi who met by chance. During this period, the beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness are depicted to the extreme. "A Thousand Cranes" describes Mitani Kikuharu's illicit love with his father's old lover Mrs. Ota after his father's death. The delicate description of Japanese scenery and psychological state shows the profound literary heritage of this Japanese literary giant.