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。
