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The Question and Answer section for Snow Country is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The novel's second part begins with Shimamura in his room observing the early autumn insects that have entered it. Of particular importance is the moth: "The moth did not move. He struck at it with his fist, and it fell like a leaf from a tree,...
Komako is a geisha but not the traditional kind of ancient Japan. She increasingly must rely on sex work to make money in order to to pay for the hospital bills of the man she used to love. Shimamura is a wealthy dilettante who has a wife and...
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