Snow Country & Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country & Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Kazuo Ishiguro (Contributor)

204 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
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This book presents English translations of two short novels by the 1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Snow Mountain is a nuanced love story involving a discouraged urbanite (Shimamura) and a rural geisha (Komako). Shimamura is tired...

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Community Reviews Summary of 29 reviews

Moods

reflective 66%
sad 66%
dark 33%
tense 33%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 100%

Strong character development?

It's complicated: 100%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 50% | No: 50%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 100%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 100%

Average rating

3.46

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