This book tells a pure and beautiful love story that transcends life and death. The content is not complicated - "I" accompanied my sick fiancée Setsuko to a sanatorium in the mountains to recuperate. Under the threat of death, we spent the last period of time together, embracing each other in life and becoming stronger. However, in the end Jiezuko died of illness, "I" returned to the village alone, and heavy snow fell one after another.
The work is based on the author's real experience. The author met and fell in love with Yano Honoko while he was recovering from illness, and they made an engagement the following year. His fiancée soon contracted tuberculosis and died of ineffective treatment, but the author gradually improved and survived...
What is more important than living itself is the good time of living! The author uses delicate brushwork to describe the delicate and sensitive inner feelings of the characters, as well as the deep affection in the small fragments of life! The atmosphere of the work is sad and touching, but also soul-stirring. It's hard to put it down after reading it…
Reader comments
The story is simple, describing the death process, clearly expressing the emotions of the living and the dead, and thinking about life. Death is terrible. The dead have gone, and the living must live well for the dead. Send her away, fulfill her, and see the world on her behalf.
The story is simple, describing the death process, clearly expressing the emotions of the living and the dead, and thinking about life. Death is terrible. The dead have gone, and the living must live well for the dead. Send her away, fulfill her, and see the world on her behalf.
Detailed description and elegant language