Welcome Guest
ART
Aesthetics
Architecture
Art
Art [Buddhist]
Art [Western]
Art Criticism
Art Magazine
Carpets
Iconography
Interior Decoration
Jewelry
Movie
Music Theatre And Dance
Numismatic
Painting [Folk]
Painting [Miniature]
Painting [Modern]
Photography
Pottery
Sculpture
Textile

ASTROLOGY
Astrology

AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY MEMORIES
Autobiography/Biography/Memories

BANARAS
Banaras

CHILDREN SECTION
Children Books

CLASSICS [FICTION & NON FICTION]
Classics

ECONOMICS & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Economics

ENVIRONMENT
Ecology

FICTION
Fiction [India]
Fiction [Science]
Fiction [World]
Graphic Novels

FOLKLORE MYTHS & LEGENDS
Folklore

GEOGRAPHY, MAP & ATLAS
Geography
Map

GRAPHIC FICTION/NON FICTION
GRAPHIC NON FICTION

HEALTH & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ayurveda & Healing
Cooking
Self Help
Yoga

HUMANITIES
Anthropology
Archaeology
Caste
Cultural Studies
Diaspora / Migration
Education
Epigraphy
Gandhi
Gender Studies
General
Globalization
History
Law
Media
Medical Anthropology
Methodology
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Tribal Studies
Visual Anthropology

KAMASUTRA
Kama Sutra

LANGUAGE
Language/Linguistic

LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES
Anthology
Essays
Hindi Literature / Criticism
History Of Literature
Literary Criticism/Literary Theory
Play
Poetry
Reportage
Sanskrit Literature

MANUSCRIPT
Manuscript

MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE
Astronomy
Mathematics
Science

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION
Bhakti
Buddhism
Chinese Philosophy
Christianity
Continental Philosophy
Gita
Gods & Goddess
Greek Philosophy
Hinduism
Indian Philosophy
Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Mahabharata
Mantra
Mysticism
Mythology
Osho
Pilgrimage Studies
Purana
Ramayana
Religion
Saint & Sages
Sikhism
Spritual
Sufism
Tantra
Taoism
Theosophical Literature
Upanisads
Vaisnavism
Veda
Vedanta Philosophy
Western Philosophy
Zarathushtra
Zen

REFERENCE
Dictionary
Quotation

TRAVEL WRITING & HOLIDAY GUIDES
Travel Guide
Travel Writing

WILDLIFE TREES & PLANTS
Wild Life

Bestsellers
Book Details
The Sound Of The Mountain
Author: Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 9780679762645
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Number of Pages: 276
Availabity:
Out Of Stock
Delivery:
3-6 business days
INR 599.00
Qty:
ADD TO CART
About Book
“The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lust—all the elements of Kawabata’s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N­o drama.” —Saturday Review Few novels have rendered the predicament of old age more beautifully than The Sound of the Mountain. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing. By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo’s life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments—and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably—Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker
About Author
Yasunari Kawabata was born near Osaka in 1899 and was orphaned at the age of two. His first stories were published while he was still in high school and he decided to become a writer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924 and a year later made his first impact on Japanese letters with Izu Dancer. He soon became a leading figure the lyrical school that offered the chief challenge to the proletarian literature of the late 1920s. His writings combine the two forms of the novel and the haiku poems, which within restrictions of a rigid metre achieves a startling beauty by its juxtaposition of opposite and incongruous terms. Snow Country (1956) and Thousand Cranes (1959) brought him international recognition. Kawabata died by his own hand, on April 16 1972. The Sound of the Mountain is translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (1921-2007), who was a prominent scholar of Japanese literature.
Related
Books


THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2019 the best short stories of the year THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2019 the best short stories of the year
Author: LAURA FURMAN
Publisher: ANCHOR BOOKS
Year of Publishing: 2019
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 599.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS


African American Folktales African American Folktales
Author: Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher: Pantheon
Year of Publishing: 1985
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 999.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS


LOST ROSES LOST ROSES
Author: MARTHA HALL KELLY
Publisher: BALLANTINE BOOKS
Year of Publishing: 2019
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 595.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS


Don Quixote Don Quixote
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Publisher: The Modern Library
Year of Publishing: 2001
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 799.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS


Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay
Author: Elena Ferrante
Publisher: Europa Editions
Year of Publishing: 2016
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 999.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS


SHUGGIE BAIN SHUGGIE BAIN
Author: DOUGLAS STUART
Publisher: PICADOR INDIA
Year of Publishing: 2020
Binding Type: Paper Back
Status: In Stock
INR 499.00
add iconADD TO CART
VIEW DETAILS
Copyright © 2022 Harmony - The Book Shop
Designed & Developed by Deltagare Technologies
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • instagram