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Original Title:	Neige
ISBN:	074345684X (ISBN13: 9780743456845)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Japan

Snow

Maxence Fermine

Hardcover | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 2278 Users | 227 Reviews

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Title	:	Snow
Author	:	Maxence Fermine
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	December 24th 2002 by Atria (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Poetry. France. European Literature. French Literature. Romance

Interpretation Toward Books Snow

"Yuko Akita had two passions. Haiku.

And snow.

"

An international bestseller, "Snow "is "a novel that reads like a poem. Limpid, delicate, and pure like its title."* In nineteenth-century Japan, a young haiku poet named Yuko journeys through snow-covered mountains on a quest for art and finds love instead. Maxence Fermine's prose is hypnotic, and his sensuous love story envelops you as if you¹re wrapped in one of his dreams with your eyes wide open.

Yuko has all the makings of greatness, but must learn to reach beyond the silent starkness of snow, his ultimate inspiration, to find the color pulsing through life. Color enhanced by love, without which he will remain invisible to the world. On his journey to enlightenment he learns how fragile the balance of life can be through the tragic story of his blind master, Soseki, and the love of his life, a French tightrope walker named Snow. Love and art finally converge in a most startling and exquisite way when a special young woman opens Yuko's heart to the purest of color and light.

"*Gala" (Italy)

Rating About Books Snow

Ratings: 3.76 From 2278 Users | 227 Reviews

Judgment About Books Snow

There are some books which are great through the amount of the words, number of characters, parallel story lines.This one is great through its simplicity of mentioned above.Yet, its gentleness, sensitivity, piercing clarity brings to you the traces of something longed for. Something deep within you that starts to dance.Something that touches the meaning and interrupts the secondary.The wholeness can be seen through the broken pieces only. The same it is with the light, with the colours.

A simple story about snow, poetry, and love. Or that's what he would like you to think. Actually it's a story about men becoming whole beings through women. Because apparently women are objects that exist to make men feel a sense of peace. Boo. Tired of this theme. A pretentious, sexist, novel. At least it was short and easy to read. Man I need something good! House of Leaves you are making all other books look like nonsense. Though I think this one is rubbish on his own.Also I'm getting more

Such a weird but fascinating story that I suggest to read in winter for the atmosphere and the setting. I appreciated the authors way of writing, very poetic and suggestive.

This is a beautiful story. Written in brief, elegant passages, it is like reading a haiku. Enchanting, heartbreaking, exquisite.

"There are two kinds of people.There are those who live, and who play, and who die.And there are those who tread paths along the high crestsof life. Balancing each step of the way.There are the actors.And there are the tightrope walkers."---------------------------------------------------------"Sú dva druhy ľudí.Jedni žijú, odohrajú svoju rolu a zomrú.Druhí len udržujú rovnováhu na hrane života.Sú herci.A sú povrazolezci."---------------------------------------------------------somehow powerful

I actually read this book in it's original French which, due to the poetic and technical nature of Fermine's writing, probably alters the quality of the book. I have read his other book "The Black Violin" in English, however, and it was also wonderful. Fermine writes in sparse simple prose resembling the snow and haikus, his main character's obsessions; he writes with an existential passion reflecting a sort of Japanese French lit fusion.

I have only recently discovered the writing of Maxence Fermine, and what a glorious discovery it has been! His writing has such delicacy and poetry. His books are short, but each word is carefully selected and carries the full impact of emotion. Snow is the story of Yuko, a writer of Haiku. He embarks on a journey of enlightenment, to study with a Master Artist, in hopes of bringing color and life to his poetry. But the ultimate enlightenment he finds in the end is Love.This is a book that is