The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata Noor Koch and confronted with a painful

and confronted with a painful choice: emotional and political commitment

De vriendschap tussen de jongen en zijn omgeving blijkt van onschatbare waarde

net als de Romeinen

when the Jazz Age sounded its last

The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata Noor Koch and confronted with a painfulOgata 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