The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata with Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)

276 pages first pub 1954 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing. By d...

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