The sound of the mountain
By: Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Edward M. Seidensticker.
Publisher: Perigee Books
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Japan -- Fiction.
Description: T anxieties and desires of an old amn, Shingo, who lives with his family in a suburb of Tokyo are shown. He hears "the sound of the mountain", the faint rumble in the hills that is a muffled hint of unknown occurrences and a foreboding of death. The affection he feels for his daughter-in-law, the increasing tensions of his relations with his wife, son and daughter are also muffled, yet disturbingly powerful.
Notes: Translation of Yama no oto.
Originally published by Knopf, New York.