Snow Country by Yasunari KawabataMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A beautifully written book (kudos also to the translator Edward G. Seidensticker). For some reason, it made me feel nostalgic, despite being about a place and time I've obviously never experienced (nor would I necessarily want to). However, it didn't really seem to lament the passing of the old, Japanese ways for the new Western ways, as his other books seem to do. At least not obviously so.
The story itself was quite slow, but it still kept me interested and I pretty much finished it in one setting.
It also got me very interested in Chijimi: https://soranews24.com/2016/06/16/oji...
I'm rounding this up to a 5
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