![]() GAH! So I kept reading to unearth these gems. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void." The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. The descriptions of the natural world, the mountains, sky, insects, weather are sublime. ![]() The writing is, at times, heartbreakingly exquisite. It felt excruciatingly long which is pretty terrible given that it's only 175 pages. She is passionate and manic, given to bouts of heavy drinking, professing her feelings, pushing him away, leaving, and coming back. ![]() He is cold and distant, much like the titular snow country. Shimamura visits the hot springs and Komako three times over the course of two years and we bear witness to their interactions. ![]() There he meets Komako, a young geisha, who falls head over heels for him despite the fact that she knows she should not. Shimamura, a rich, spoiled, idle, married man, travels to a hot spring in Japan's remote Snow Country, so called because the winters are long and the snow isolates it for months on end. Because honestly, I didn't really like it. First published in 1948 and considered Kawabata's masterpiece, I felt like I should have liked Snow Country more than I did. ![]()
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