The Sound of the Mountain |
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| Author:
| Kawabata, Yasunari |
| Editor:
| Seidensticker, Edward G. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-306-77724-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1971 |
| Publisher: | Tuttle Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Few novels have depicted the predicament of old age more evocatively 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.
Few novels have depicted the predicament of old age more evocatively 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.