Snow Country

　　To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.

作家簡介

「日本小說家」川端康成

　　於1968年獲得諾貝爾文學獎，是繼印度詩哲泰戈爾之後獲得此一殊榮的亞洲作家，其得獎的理由是「以傑出的描繪力，高度地表現了日本人纖細的感受性，顯示了日本的傳統真髓。」內容簡介：穿過縣境長長的隧道後，便是雪國了．夜空下，大地一片白茫茫．火車在信號所前停下…竟是這麼冷了！山腳下零零落落地點綴著一些簡陋的房子；雪色到了那裏，便被黑暗吞噬了。《雪國》作為川端戰前的代表作，可看出日本傳統文學復活的契機，他使動與靜融合在一起，如在冬夜的死疾中，突然聽到遠處溪流的嗚咽；又如靜中啼聽著壺中的沸水聲，不自覺地聽成了女人的踅音。