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. 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. Beautiful and innocent she is tightly bound by the rules of a
rural geisha and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. Snow Country Yasunari Kawabata's
masterpiece is a delicate subtle meditation on love and its limits. 'A work of beauty and
strangeness one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels' New York Herald
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