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    <body><![CDATA[at tosh's prodding i'd been on something of a japanese kick in '07 and had burned through mishima, dazai, tanizaki, murakami, etc. and was deciding which Kawabata to start with when charles sent me an interview in which william vollmann (whom i don't dig the way others do, but definitely admire his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11386829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let it be known that this is a terrible translation. I am convinced that I would have enjoyed this book ten times as much if someone other than Edward Seidensticker had bothered to translate it. My reasoning? Kawabata's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" title=" Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"> Palm-of-the-Hand Stories</a> is one best collections of short stories I have ever r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9932690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably should have read this book in the middle of January when the cold still hurt and the wind had a vindictive personality. Reading a book that takes place in the heart of Japan's Snow Country just doesn't have quite the same zest when you're reading it outside on a sunny day with the dog at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7831465">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i was a bit disappointed with this, especially if it's one of kawabata's more celebrated (or just famous?) books, or one of his break-out books, and since he is a nobel winner. his prose is lovely, but i felt like i was watching a very tactful and well-mannered movie from the 50s where they divert y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14635397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short, haiku-like story set in a hot springs resort in the mountains on the west part of Japan where it snows heavily each winter.   The nature images are very strong.   Since the story is about a dissolute man and a geisha, I didn't relate to either protagonist, but the aura of the novel is intense...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44303972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How fitting that Kawabata is a master exposing the sublime in the most mundane; Snow Country creates a grand study of the human heart out of a mish-mash of the vulgar and pathetic.  Make no mistake, Shimamura is essentially a playboy, Komako a geisha lush.  Their indulgent lives play out in ritual, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10981669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the translation is lost on me....I know that Yasunari Kawabata was the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.   His writing is rich with poetry:<br/><br/>  &quot;The color of evening had already fallen on the mountain valley, early buried in shadows.  Out of the dusk the distant mountains...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45055119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kawabata creates a timeless poetic lovestory interspersed with poetic moments in descriptions of landscapes that speak for the characters' moods and provide subtle indications and foreshadowings on the relationship.  While the main story is the skeleton of the book, the poetic descriptions are like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2021545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of this book is a close character study of two people.  An older, idle gentleman of wealth falls for a young geisha in a mountain village.  There interactions are both subtle and schizophrenic, and I was often catching up to the characters' thoughts.  Their interactions read more like the scree...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78471634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yasunari Kawabata foi o primeiro escritor japonês galardoado com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura, em 1968. Este é o primeiro livro que leio do autor e decerto não será o último.<br/><br/>A história retrata a relação que se estabelece entre Shimamura, visitante de umas termas numa região mon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77300304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was terribly boring, just extremely tedious and really not worth reading. In one word: Blah. The symbolism and imagery is heavy-handed and not significant at all (I can't believe three pages are spent describing the reflection of an eye in a train window, as if it's somehow important). It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44427667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Borrowed from a friend who introduced it to her book club and highly recommends it ... by a Japanese author who won the Nobel prize for literature.  It's an interesting love story that has potential....NOW FINISHED:  Well, I wasn’t that impressed.  It was rather slow moving and there wasn’t enou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54725480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Snow Country is a novel about the three visits of Shimamura, a wealthy man of leisure to a hot springs mountain resort on the western side of Japan. It is spring the first time and he meets a local geisha, Komako. She is reluctant to be a geisha but feels she needs a 'protector'. Komako is immature,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70271922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[During the time that this book was written many people believed that becoming a modern, industrialized, country meant loneliness and detachment for the people of Japan, which is the main theme of the Snow Country. This theme of melancholy is portrayed through the love affair between an onsen geisha ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56025874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the writing is so gentle, the scenery so vivid, the story very heartbreaking, the pacing so very gradual. The patience of the author is amazing. This is the second novel I’ve read by Kawabata, whose writing has really pierced my psyche in recent days. May I also take on some of his patience and br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7870881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Japanese style of implying things, and having more subtle actions than words is very characteristic in this book.  It's a story of man and a geisha, and it doesn't have a traditional plot so it's difficult to say more than that about it.  But I also cried a lot and it's very beautiful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not to my taste, especially when compared to Kawabata's brilliant novel <em>The Sound of the Mountain</em>. I found several of the characters sympathetic and interesting, but the narrative itself felt unsatisfying. There were too few resolutions and too many unsolved mysteries, especially regarding a few of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45878876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have an interesting relationship with Snow Country. Last winter, everytime I went to read this book it actually snowed in Seattle. Weird. It doesn't normally snow. It snowed SO much they closed down the hills here, people couldn't get to work. So I would put the book away and then pick it up again...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77113361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's best known novel paints the human condition and the Japanese landscape in mournful hues as he constructs this tragically beautiful work. The story follows Shimamura, a Tokyo diletante, and his trips to the snow country as he searches for himself in the landscap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63704018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A acção deste livro decorre numa estação termal nas montanhas do norte do Japão. Nesse local conhecem-se as duas personagens principais. Komako é uma jovem geisha, bonita mas pouco segura de si, ainda infantil, pouco madura e deslumbrada pela ingenuidade do amor; Shimamura é um homem maduro m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62792504">more...</a>]]></body>
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