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Snow (Paperback)

by Maxence Fermine (Author), Chris Mulhern (Translator)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: acorn book company (4 Sep 2002)
  • ISBN-10: 0953420531
  • ISBN-13: 978-0953420537
  • Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 389,804 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Le Figaro Litteraire

‘A beautiful debut, a tale of mysterious clarity,like the poetry which inspired it.’


Marie Claire Italy

‘From France, an excellent first time writer.’
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4.0 out of 5 stars The beauty of a snowflake, 5 April 2003
This review is from: Snow (Hardcover)
Yuko Akita, seventeen and living in the south of Japan in 1884, is nearing the end of his boyhood. It's time for him to choose a vocation. Warrior or monk. He chooses to be a poet. Says his father, "Poetry is not a profession. It is a way of passing the time. Poems are like water. Like this river," and Yuko says, "That is just what I want to do. To learn to watch the passing of time." Each if Yuko's poems is pure and colorless, each one is about snow. The Emperor's Imperial Poet is not satisfied. They are too white for him. So he sends Yuko to study color with Soseki, a blind old artist who was once in love with a tightrope walker ... named Snow.

As the book jacket states, SNOW reads like a long, intensely lucid poem. Not one word is wasted. Although the story itself is not all that remarkable and won't surprise the aware reader, the method used to tell it sets it apart from the ordinary. By the end I had tears in my eyes. There is even a touch of humor here, along with some profound statements about both life and art.

Only 100 tiny pages long and readable in half an hour, SNOW is a remarkably beautiful, if simplistic, love story that I can highly recommend.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The most sensitive book I have ever read., 31 Mar 2002
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This is probably one of the best books I have ever read. I reccomend to read the hole of it in one time and I asure you that you will get so amused with this reading that you will want to begin writing Haikus. The way it is written make you read it as if you were hearing music. Please, read it... it will be a reading that will change the way you see the snow.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beauty in the purest form, 13 Oct 2002
I've just spent about an hour reading this book, and HAD to come straight online to tell you all to buy it!!

Its absolutely fantastic - I literally couldn't put it down until, all of a sudden, I had finished it & was left wanting more!

Do not even hesitate in purchasing this beautiful book about Haiku - even if you're new to it all, you can still appreciate the beauty of Haiku and the enchantment of snow!

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I read this book in french when it first came out and found it to be one of the most charming and delicately written books I know of till today. Read more
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