Snow Country

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

Snow Country Review

Snow Country is not a long novel. It comes close to falling into the inconvenient range of the novella, hardly long enough to be a book and too long to be a magazine piece. Yet it was some 13 years in the writing. From 1935 to 1937, Kawabata published several related fragments in several magazines. None carried the title Snow Country, which was assigned when, in 1937, with some revision, the fragments brought together to book form.

There was no indication that the work was not finished. Then in 1940 Kawabata added another chapter. ...