The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

224 pages first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have p...

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