Paperback, 288 pages
English language
Published May 28, 1996 by Vintage.
The Sound of the Mountain
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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 Shingo’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.
Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
Subjects
- Modern fiction
- Literary
- Japanese (Language) Contemporary Fiction
- Kawabata, Yasunari - Prose & Criticism
- Fiction - General
- Fiction
- Asian - General
- Fiction / Literary
- Japan