The Sound of the Mountain (National Book Award Winner)
A Novel
$30.44
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
28 May 1996
Summary
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 r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679762645 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679762647 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 1996 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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Critics Review
“Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible.” – Commonweal
“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
About The Author
Yasunari Kawabata
YASUNARI KAWABATA was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe-medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.
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