The sound of the mountain
Kawabata, Yasunari (1899-1972)
The sound of the mountain / Yasunari Kawabata - First Vintage International edition. - New York : Vintage Books , 1996, c1970 - 276 p. ; 21 cm
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo's life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments - and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably - Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting.
Translated from the Japanese to English
Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature
9780679762645
Memory -- Fiction
Family life----Fiction
PL832.A9 / Y313 1996
FIC KAW
The sound of the mountain / Yasunari Kawabata - First Vintage International edition. - New York : Vintage Books , 1996, c1970 - 276 p. ; 21 cm
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo's life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments - and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably - Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting.
Translated from the Japanese to English
Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature
9780679762645
Memory -- Fiction
Family life----Fiction
PL832.A9 / Y313 1996
FIC KAW
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