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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/2021545?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>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 joints; each reader interprets them according to his or her own experience and mentally twists the limbs of the skeleton to give shape to the creature that is this novel. Or something like that. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/134505?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>