Author: Kawabata, Yasunari, Seidensticker, Edward G.
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) 
Published 06/01/2011 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series 
Paperback | 128 pages
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.