As ever with Sebastian Faulks, the book is delivered with the skills of a great writer. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three. In elegant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has produced an epic love story of timeless resonance. The truth hidden between the lines of the original novel is slowly revealed as elements of a mystery fall into place. Snow Country covers the period from before WWI to the beginnings of the rise of fascism in Austria, and centres around love, loss, and the choices people make. Snow Country is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another, SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth and the sanctity of hope. But if so, why is Yoko the one who nurses Yukio? The complex relations among Komako, Yukio and Yoko gradually become clear to him, though he views them and his own involvement as 'wasted effort.'Įnhanced by the charm of an ancient hot spring town, this drama explores the subtle yearnings of the heart set against the gorgeous silver scenery of Japan's snow country. Komako explains that she has known Yukio since they were children, and Shimamura also comes to understand that Komako became a geisha in order to help pay Yukio's medical bills. It seems that Komako and Yoko live in the same house as the ill man Yukio. The next day, he visits the room where Komako lives and finds Yoko there. Arriving at an inn, Shimamura spends the night with a geisha named Komako. Gazing at their otherworldly reflection in the train window, Shimamura wonders if they might be husband and wife. On a train bound for the snowy mountains of northwestern Japan, a writer named Shimamura notices two fellow-passengers: an ill man named Yukio and the young woman who attends him, Yoko. A dramatization of the classic of Japanese and world literature depicting a story of doomed love in a wintry setting.įifty years after the death of famed novelist Kawabata Yasunari, this drama presents a new perspective on his Nobel Prize-winning work, Snow Country.

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