Snow Country review

       The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari's early classic, Snow Country.

       My copy is an ancient Berkley Medallion mass-market paperback -- anything to avoid the trade-paperback size, and to be able to carry the book around in my pocket -- but I must say I was disappointed to find in my copy -- the eighth printing ! -- the misprint:

     "It makes me very said," she murmured to herself.

       It makes me very said, too, when such an important sentence is left with the misspelling intact across so many printings and years (it's a 1972 printing, of a version first published in 1960).