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Snow Country (humanities Classic Library)
General Fiction雪国（人文经典文库）
(japanese) Translated By Kawabata Yasunari And Chen Dewen
"Snow Country" is the masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari, the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel describes a Western dance researcher named Shimamura who went to a hot spring hotel in the snow country three times and developed a subtle emotional relationship with a local geisha named Komako and the girl Ye Zi. The story finally ended with Ye Zi's accidental death. This book also includes the article "Celebrities". The novel is based on the real event of the Go farewell match of the Japanese celebrity Honinbo Hideya. Through a combination of documentary and fiction, it shows the traditional Japanese Go spirit and records the historical moment when the Japanese Go world transformed from tradition to modernity.
"Snow Country" is the masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari, the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel describes a Western dance researcher named Shimamura who went to a hot spring hotel in the snow country three times and developed a subtle emotional relationship with a local geisha named Komako and the girl Ye Zi. The story finally ended with Ye Zi's accidental death. This book also includes the article "Celebrities". The novel is based on the real event of the Go farewell match of the Japanese celebrity Honinbo Hideya. Through a combination of documentary and fiction, it shows the traditional Japanese Go spirit and records the historical moment when the Japanese Go world transformed from tradition to modernity.