The JETAA Chicago and Japan America Society of Chicago YPC Book Club September meeting is only one week away on Thursday, Sept. 19th from 6-7 pm CST on Zoom!
Our book club highlights voices and stories with a solid connection to Japan. For our next meeting, we have chosen Snow Country. Written by Yasunari Kawabata, the recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature. In September's pick, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.
Be sure to finish up those pages (or start the book if you haven't already!) and join us on Zoom next week! If you've read the book in the past, sign up below and join our discussion.
Sign up here!
If you have any questions, please reach out to info@jetaachicago.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
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