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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.

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Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible * Commonweal *
A rich, complicated novel. . . . Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata's is the closest to poetry * The New York Times Book Review *

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    A Paperback / softback by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 06/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9780141192628, 978-0141192628
      ISBN10: 0141192623
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.

      Trade Review
      Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible * Commonweal *
      A rich, complicated novel. . . . Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata's is the closest to poetry * The New York Times Book Review *

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