Event Date:
Monday, December 5, 2022 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
The book club will read & discuss Snow Country, the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, by Yasnuari Kawabata. Considered by many to be Kawabata’s masterpiece, Snow Country, is a tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. The novel chronicles the doomed romance of a wealthy dilettante & a lowly geisha. A sense of loneliness & preoccupation with death seeps into Kawabata’s literary world possibly derived from the loneliness of his childhood. When Kawabata accepted the Nobel Prize, the first Japanese writer to do so, he remarked of his work, that he tried to beautify death & to seek harmony among man, nature, and emptiness.
Books will be available at the library or online. Discussion lead by John Rusnock.
REGISTRATION REQUESTED online or call the library 860-844-5275.
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