Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata’s masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. The novel YUKIGUNI (Snow Country) by Yasunari Kawabata, which begins with this sentence that will be familiar to everyone in Japan. Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan’s mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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