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“A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —The New York Times Book Review
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.
Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
Kindle Book
- Release date: February 20, 2013
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307833655
- Release date: February 20, 2013
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- ISBN: 9780307833655
- File size: 1876 KB
- Release date: February 20, 2013
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Lexile® Measure:670
Text Difficulty:3