{"product_id":"snow-country-yasunari-kawabata","title":"Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLittle Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan's mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion. \u003ci\u003eSnow Country\u003c\/i\u003e, Yasunari Kawabata's masterpiece, is a delicate, subtle meditation on love and its limits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A work of beauty and strangeness, one of the most distinguished and moving of Japanese novels' \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYasunari Kawabata\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are \u003ci\u003eSnow Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Cranes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Master of Go\u003c\/i\u003e. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65800021377373,"sku":"K096070129","price":13.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9607012900001A.jpg?v=1788438566","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/snow-country-yasunari-kawabata","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}