Kawabata, Yasunari  (1899-1972) <br/><br/>
The sound of the mountain 
/ Yasunari Kawabata 
 - First Vintage International edition. 
 - New York  : Vintage Books  , 1996, c1970 
 - 276 p.  ; 21 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Japanese to English 
<br/><br/> Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780679762645 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Memory -- Fiction<br/>Family life----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PL832.A9  / Y313 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC KAW