Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata The Diary of a Young Girl Val McDermid

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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata The Diary of a Young Girl Val McDermidThis masterpiece from the Nobel Prize winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. Kawabatas novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time. The New York Times Book Review At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and