Yasunari Kawabata

The Sound of the Mountain is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, serialized between 1949 and 1954. The Sound of the Mountain is unusually long for a Kawabata novel, running to 276 pages in its English translation. Like much of his work, it is written in short, spare prose akin to poetry, which its …

The fusion of reality and fantasy in the minds of the old and the lonely is the central theme of these Japanese stories.