The Sound of the Mountain - (Vintage International) by Yasunari Kawabata (Paperback)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Translation of Yama no oto (romanized form).<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's <i>The Sound of the Mountain</i> 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. <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible."<br>--<i>Commonweal</i> <p/> "A rich, complicated novel. . . . Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata's is the closest to poetry." <br>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Yasunari Kawabata</b> was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan's most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story "The Izu Dancer," first published in 1925, appeared in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i> in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including <i>Snow Country</i> (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as <i>Thousand Cranes</i> (1959), <i>The Sound of the Mountain</i> (1970), <i>The Master of Go</i> (1972), and <i>Beauty and Sadness</i> (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe-medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.
Price History
Cheapest price in the interval: 15.99 on October 22, 2021
Most expensive price in the interval: 15.99 on December 20, 2021
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us