Snow Country. Ancient Capital. A Thousand Cranes

Author: (Japanese) Kawabata Yasunari, translated by Ye Weiqiu and Tang Yuemei
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Publish Date: 2001-12-03
Features: This book collects three masterpieces of Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari. Snow Country presents a world of melancholy and elegance to readers through the emotional entanglements between Shimamura, a dance researcher with money and leisure, and an artiste and a pure-hearted young woman. Koto depicts a touching tale of joy and sorrow between a pair of twin sisters raised in families of starkly different socio-economic backgrounds. The Thousand Cranes portrays the tragic consequences when, a wealthy young man, becomes involved in a physical relationship with Taeko, the former sex worker of his father, inadvertently leading to the suicide of the girl he truly loved—Wako, Taeko’s daughter.