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The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata

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By 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.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679762645
Translator:
Seidensticker, Edward G.
Author:
Seidensticker, Edward G.
Author:
Kawabata, Yasunari
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Asian - General
Subject:
Japan
Subject:
Japan Fiction.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
1996
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage International
Series Volume:
digest no. 1994/193
Publication Date:
19960531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.06x5.26x.65 in. .48 lbs.
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