The Sound of the Mountain (National Book Award Winner)
Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
ISBN: 9780679762645
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 May 1996
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICSPlt;brPgt;Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than Plt;IPgt;The Sound of the MountainPlt;/IPgt;. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
Plt;bPgt;From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Plt;iPgt;Snow CountryPlt;/iPgt; comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old ageP#8212;about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt; Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, KawabataP#8217;s is the closest to poetry.P#8221; P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The New York Times Book ReviewPlt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of ShingoP#8217;s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
ISBN: 9780679762645
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 May 1996
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICSPlt;brPgt;Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than Plt;IPgt;The Sound of the MountainPlt;/IPgt;. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
Plt;bPgt;From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Plt;iPgt;Snow CountryPlt;/iPgt; comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old ageP#8212;about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life.P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt; Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, KawabataP#8217;s is the closest to poetry.P#8221; P#8212;Plt;iPgt;The New York Times Book ReviewPlt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of ShingoP#8217;s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
