Description
As an older man slips into his sixties, Ogata Shingo finds his nights disturbed by unsettling dreams and a recurring, distant sound from the mountain—an omen that seems to draw him toward the edge of mortality. When the sound begins to echo through his waking life, it also reframes the fractures within his family: the quiet failures of fatherhood, the compromises of marriage, and the painful consequences of love left unexamined. Through a restrained, lyrical lens characteristic of Yasunari Kawabata, the novel moves between psychological unease and intimate domestic detail, asking what it means to face time, responsibility, and the fragile bonds that hold a household together. Part meditation on aging and death, part study of human regret, this is a haunting story of how one haunting “noise” can awaken an entire life to its own unfinished truths.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published May 28, 1996
289 pages
ISBN: 9780679762645
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Details
First Published
1970
Language
eng
Translation
From: jpn
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN by Yasunari Kawabata.