Publisher's Synopsis
"Voice of the Mountain" describes that from the moment when he suddenly heard the sound of the mountain in the middle of the night, the old man Shingo Ogata seemed to be shrouded in the warning of death, but this fear could not be expressed... Kawabata Yasunari uses the gloomy state of mind of an old man who is easily shaken by the emotional state of his son and his wife as the background. His psychological conflicts with his wife, son, divorced daughter, and young daughter-in-law are shadowed. The gloomy anguish, sadness and powerlessness lurking in Japanese families. Novelist Yukio Mishima, Kenkichi Yamamoto and other literary critics have given high praise, and the Japanese literary world recognized it as the pinnacle of post-war literature.
