naharobed 's review for:

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

1.0

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This book confused me big time. Literally nothing happens except numerous descriptions of snow and an older married man being creepy toward a young geisha? This book was published in the 50s and I guess is considered classic Japanese literature but it was the most boring book I’ve ever read. It’s also a really short book but it felt like 700 pages. I didn’t like the writing style, and I don’t think it was a problem of translation. I hated the characters, they are dull and flat. The story structure (if it can even be called a story) is disjointed and makes no sense.