Quotes from book
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Original title
雪国
(Japanese, 1935)
Snow Country is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Snow Country (1948)
First lines (as translated by Edward Seidensticker).
Snow Country (1948)
