"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

May 2026

Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn't tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel Prize...