The Sound of the Mountain

Yasunari Kawabata

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English

Vintage
28 May 1996

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage International

VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A SELECTION OF MODERN JAPANESE CLASSICS Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. 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.

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age-about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life.

""A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata's is the closest to poetry."" -The New York Times Book Review

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

By: Yasunari Kawabata
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 238g
ISBN: 9780679762645
ISBN 10: 0679762647
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 May 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Sound of the Mountain

“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