Cover art for The Sound of the Mountain
Published
Penguin, January 2011
ISBN
9780141192628
Format
Softcover, 224 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.3cm

The Sound of the Mountain by

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Kawabata's serenely observed and enormously affecting portrait of old age

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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