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 Tribune
