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| #189655 in Books | Vintage | 1996-05-28 | 1996-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.62 x5.19l,.49 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Reading Kawabata is like puffing a blunt on a winter day...|By Fredrick Vincent|It takes patience to appreciate this author. He has the rare ability that all writers aspire but hardly come close to, and even in translation the effect of his words shine through, his gift to set a mood and paint a scene with words, saying little but implying much so that what is left unsaid could||“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.” |—<
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain 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.
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Sound of the Mountain | Yasunari Kawabata. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
