The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Translation of Yama no oto (romanized form) The sounds of the mountain - The wings of the locust - A blaze of clouds - The chestnuts - A dream of islands - The cherry in the winter - Water in the morning. Publication date 1970 Topics Japan - Fiction Publisher New. 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. The sound of the mountain by Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. 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. The Sound of the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics): .uk: Kawabata, Yasunari, Seidensticker, Edward G. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. Buy The Sound of the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by Kawabata, Yasunari, Seidensticker, Edward G. 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.īy day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. Synopsis: “The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust-all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a Nō drama.” - Saturday Reviewįew novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain.

The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata