The Sound of the Mountain

The Sound of the MountainBy: Yasunari Kawabata Series: Vintage International From the Nobel Prize winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old ageabout 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, Kawabatas is the closest to poetry. The New York Times Book Review

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