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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14028.Snow_Country?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Snow Country" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166575739m/14028.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14028.Snow_Country?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Snow Country</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8550.Yasunari_Kawabata">Yasunari Kawabata</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10981669?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>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, sometimes nonsensical, sometimes pointedly direct. Through it all, snow, beautiful and lulling, anesthetizes even the reader. Living in the snow country is committing to the whisper, the smirk and the deafening sound of silence. The ending is a direct challenge to readers. A final exclamation mark in a novel with none. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/663365?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>