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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Snow country is a stark tale of a love affair between a tokyo dilettante and a provincial geisha that takes place in the remote hot spring town of yuzawa. Snow country hawaii state public library system overdrive. Read snow country by yasunari kawabata available from rakuten kobo. Kawabata proceeds to depict the sometimes tense, sometimes easygoing interactions between shimamura and komako. Few opening lines in the canon of domestic literature match that of yasunari kawabata s snow country in terms of fame. Snow country by kawabata, yasunari ebook snow country penguin modern classics series by yasunari kawabata. Snow country penguin modern classics by kawabata, yasunari.