The Sound of The Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Condition: Very good vintage condition. A little wear on the cover and a few scuffs/light marks. Pages are clean and tidy and the book only appears to have been read lightly.
Notes: Vintage 1972 paperback with lovely illustrated cover not often seen.
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. 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. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.
Condition: Very good vintage condition. A little wear on the cover and a few scuffs/light marks. Pages are clean and tidy and the book only appears to have been read lightly.
Notes: Vintage 1972 paperback with lovely illustrated cover not often seen.
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. 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. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.
Condition: Very good vintage condition. A little wear on the cover and a few scuffs/light marks. Pages are clean and tidy and the book only appears to have been read lightly.
Notes: Vintage 1972 paperback with lovely illustrated cover not often seen.
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. 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. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.