Land of the snow

At that very moment, a distant light flickered and shone on the face. The image, in the play of reflections on the mirror, was not drawn with enough stability to conceal the flickering of the light, but it was also not fleeting enough to fade behind. Shimamura traced the slow movement of the light across the face without causing any disturbance in him. A cold, dispersed flicker in the distance. And when its faint glow ignited in the young woman's pupil, and when the sparkle of the gaze and the flicker of the distant light intersected and merged, it was like a miracle of beauty shining in the realm of strangeness, and that shining eye that seemed as if it was sailing in the ocean of mountains and the rushing wave. Number of pages: 234 Publisher: Dar Al-Rafidain Author: Yasunari Kawabata