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008			190124t19961970nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780679762645
050	0	0	_aPL832.A9 _bY313 1996
082	1		_aFIC KAW _2
100	1		_aKawabata, Yasunari _d(1899-1972)
245	1	4	_aThe sound of the mountain _c/ Yasunari Kawabata
250			_aFirst Vintage International edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage Books _c, 1996, c1970
300			_a276 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aBy 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.
546			_aTranslated from the Japanese to English
586			_aWinner of The Nobel Prize for Literature
650		4	_aMemory -- Fiction
650		4	_aFamily life _v--Fiction
700	1		_aSeidensticker, Edward
942			_cMO
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