{"product_id":"the-sound-of-the-mountain-by-yasunari-kawabata","title":"The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata","description":"\u003csection class=\"container cmpnt_2-col-hero\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mlcl_2col-hero-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003csection aria-label=\"Overlay with full book description\" class=\"cmpnt_lightbox\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mlcl_lb-inner\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSnow Country\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A rich, complicated novel.... Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata’s is the closest to poetry.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150322151669,"sku":"9780679762645","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/9446\/7737\/files\/9780679762645.jpg?v=1778945312","url":"https:\/\/wonderpens.ca\/products\/the-sound-of-the-mountain-by-yasunari-kawabata","provider":"Wonder Pens","version":"1.0","type":"link"}