The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata Noor Koch when the Jazz Age sounded

when the Jazz Age sounded its last

and confronted with a painful choice: emotional and political commitment

Despising himself for the hate that he feels

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The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata Noor Koch when the Jazz Age soundedOgata 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