One character in this novel remembers she last saw a man exactly 199 days earlier by referencing her diary in which she catalogues the characters from novels she has read. A man skips the "bird-chasing" festival in which children build a ten-foot tal
One character in this novel remembers she last saw a man exactly 199 days earlier by referencing her diary in which she catalogues the characters from novels she has read. A man skips the "bird-chasing" festival in which children build a ten-foot tall palace to live in for one night. At the end of this novel the protagonist feels as though the Milky Way flows into him after watching a cocoon-warehouse burn down from an accident while it was being used a movie theater. The primary female character lives in the house of a paralyzed music teacher whose ailing son Yukio is nursed by Yoko. This novel's protagonist is an expert on Western ballet and comes to the title region for its hot springs. For 10 points, name this novel in which the geisha Komako falls in the love with the elderly Shimamura, written by Yasunari Kawabata.
One character in this novel remembers she last saw a man exactly 199 days earlier by referencing her diary in which she catalogues the characters from novels she has read.
Snow Country [or Yukiguni]