![]() ![]() ![]() Yukio’s mother is a music teacher in the village to which Shimamura is traveling. He hears, and is enthralled by, the voice of a woman, Yoko, who is with an ailing man named Yukio. Shimamura is a wealthy ballet critic from Tokyo who in reality lacks any depth of knowledge in his field. ![]() The novel opens on a train with the central character, Shimamura, traveling to a small town in Japan’s snow country. ![]() A sense of loneliness pervades the area and influences the mood of the book. The snow, which accumulates up to five meters, at times separates towns and villages from surrounding areas. The title refers to a mountainous region of Japan that receives a large amount of snow from the north winds of the Sea of Japan. Eventually, nine pieces were published and later integrated into the final novel, which was published in 1948. Subsequent related stories were released in various journals over several years. It initially appeared as a short story in a literary journal. A winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata’s novel Snow Country (in Japanese, Yukiguani) was first published in various forms from 1935 through 1947, and comprises a significant part of his body of work. ![]()
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