Land of the snow

The country of snowsin that very moment a distant light shimmered and sparkled on the face. The image, in the play of reflections on the mirror, was not drawn with enough stability to eclipse the flickering light, but it was also not fleeting to the point of fading behind it. Shimamura traced the slow movement of light on the face without causing any disturbance in it. A cold, dispersed shimmer in the distance. And when the faint glow in the young woman's pupil ignited, and when the sparkle of her gaze intersected with the distant emitted light and blended, it was like a miracle of beauty shining in the realm of strangeness, and that luminous eye that seemed as if it was sailing in the ocean of mountains and the accelerating wave. Author's name: Yasunari Kawabata Publisher: Takuo