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      The Sound of the Mountain

      by Yasunari Kawabata
      Published
      Jun 1970
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      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 between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo's life:  his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time.

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      Jan 1971 Berkley ISBN13 9780425027257 ISBN10 0425027252
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      Aug 1981 Penguin ISBN13 9780399505270 ISBN10 039950527X
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      Jun 1996 Vintage ISBN13 9780679762645 ISBN10 0679762647
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      Jan 2011 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141192628 ISBN10 0141192623
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      First Edition Jun 1970 Random House ISBN13 9780394446288 ISBN10 0394446283
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      Jun 1971 Tuttle Publishing ISBN13 9781462912384 ISBN10 1462912389
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      Feb 2013 Vintage ISBN10 B00B6OVQKC
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