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A review by lilias
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata
4.0
Much of what I love about traveling I love about reading, and once in a while, the two meet together in unexpected places.
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First Snow on Fuji, by Yasunari Kawabata, is a collection of short stories and one dramatic work.
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One of my most memorable trips abroad was my trip to Japan. I was awed by what I experienced there. I was especially drawn to what I interpreted as a culture that valued simplicity, purpose, nature, and the supernatural. Those are the themes I loved in Kawabata’s stories. Reading this collection reinforced how memorable that trip was and how many places I was able to see in such a short amount of time, thanks to an amazing hostess. I recognized the names of places the characters in the stories passed through; places like Hakone, Kamakura, and Odawara.
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I often claim to not usually be able to connect to short story collections as much as to novels or pieces of non-fiction, but by reading collections like this one, I’m slowly figuring out that though I may not devour them like I do some novels, I do really enjoy delicate moments of detail in the short stories.
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First Snow on Fuji, by Yasunari Kawabata, is a collection of short stories and one dramatic work.
⠀
One of my most memorable trips abroad was my trip to Japan. I was awed by what I experienced there. I was especially drawn to what I interpreted as a culture that valued simplicity, purpose, nature, and the supernatural. Those are the themes I loved in Kawabata’s stories. Reading this collection reinforced how memorable that trip was and how many places I was able to see in such a short amount of time, thanks to an amazing hostess. I recognized the names of places the characters in the stories passed through; places like Hakone, Kamakura, and Odawara.
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I often claim to not usually be able to connect to short story collections as much as to novels or pieces of non-fiction, but by reading collections like this one, I’m slowly figuring out that though I may not devour them like I do some novels, I do really enjoy delicate moments of detail in the short stories.