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Yasunari Kawabata este primul scriitor japonez care a primit Premiul Nobel pentru literatura, in 1968. Vechiul oras imperial, capodopera lui Kawabata, a fost ecranizat in 1963 de Noboru Nakamura si in 1980 de Kon Ichikawa.

„Oricine se indragosteste cauta de fapt bucati pierdute din propria-i viata. Si oricine se indragosteste se intristeaza cind se gindeste la cel iubit. E ca si cum te-ai intoarce intr-o camera cu amintiri dragi, o camera de mult parasita.” (Haruki Murakami)

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.