She opened his hand and pressed her cheek against it. “I know,” Her face carefully composed, she laughed softly. This.” He pushed his right hand into the kotatsu to warm it, and again gave her his left fist with the finger extended. As if to conceal her confusion, she clutched at his hand again. She let go his hand as they came to the kotatsu in his room, and suddenly she was red from the forehead to her throat. “Oh?” The woman took the finger in the hand and clung to it as through to lead him upstairs. The first meeting we see between Komako and Shimamura after a long separation highlights this tension:Ībruptly, at the foot of the stairs, he shoved his left fist before her eyes, with only the forefinger extended. As for Komako, she loves him but realizes how he uses her to ease his own boredom and discontent. Rather, he mistakes pleasure and attention with love. He believes himself in love with Komako, but he doesn’t know what love really is. He’s rich and disconnected from his feelings and those of others. The story offers a subtle character study on Shimamura. Kawabata writes with spareness and suggestion instead of writing overtly. The book can be a little difficult to follow if you don’t read carefully. The story follows Shimamura’s love affair with the hot spring geisha Komako and his developing interest with a young woman named Yoko. The book Snow Country offers cold prose and interactions appropriate to its name.
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