Description
Collection: Love and Snow
In white landscapes or in atmospheres where time seems suspended, unfold stories of fragile, impossible, or long-delayed love. This collection brings together two works by Yasunari Kawabata, a master of the unspoken, where human connections brush against one another without promises, and beauty lies in what slips through the fingers. These are novels where winter is both setting and state of soul.
Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata
Shimamura, a man from the city, travels to a remote snowy region where he develops a relationship with Komako, a local geisha. Distance, longing, and impossibility thread through this story of intermittent encounters marked by seasons, silences, and missed connections. Snow Country is a masterpiece of emotional minimalism, where the sublime and the everyday merge under the pale light of winter.
Thousand Cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
Following the death of his father, Kikuji finds himself entangled in a web of relationships with his father’s former lovers and their daughters. At the center lies the tea ceremony, a ritual that becomes a symbol of both restraint and desire. Between formal gestures and silent tension, the novel explores the inheritance of longing, buried guilt, and emptiness as a lingering presence. Each scene is imbued with restrained beauty and emotional shadow.
Snow falls slowly,
two shadows briefly crossing
without a pause.
* The collection includes the 2 books mentioned
