The Sound of the Mountain
Shingo, sixty-two, hears a sound come off the mountain behind the Kamakura house one August night and takes it for a summons. He is losing names and faces, dreaming of women he did not marry, and watching his son keep a mistress in Tokyo while the daughter-in-law he loves goes on making his breakfast. Widely held to be Kawabata's finest novel, where lyricism carries a family's arithmetic.
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