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The Sound of the Mountain (Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954, and first published as a standalone book in 1954 by Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo.
- Yasunari Kawabata
- 1949
Sound of the Mountain (Japanese: 山の音, Hepburn: Yama no oto) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on the novel The Sound of the Mountain by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. Naruse declared Sound of the Mountain one of his favourites of his films.
At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction.
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Jan 11, 2010 · Translation of Yama no oto (romanized form) The sounds of the mountain -- The wings of the locust -- A blaze of clouds -- The chestnuts -- A dream of islands -- The cherry in the winter -- Water in the morning -- The voice in the night -- The bell in Spring -- The kite's house -- A garden in the capital -- The scar -- In the rain ...
May 28, 1996 · From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life. “A rich, complicated novel....
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- Yasunari Kawabata
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- 1949
The Sound of the Mountain narrates the events in the life of a certain elderly Japanese businessman, Shingo, and demonstrates the way these events impinge on and help...
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata - The 1470th greatest book of all time. The novel centers around an aging businessman who, upon hearing nightly sounds from the nearby mountain, begins to confront his own mortality and the complexities within his family.
