Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain - He began to feel that there was some sort of special little world apart over behind the shrubbery

Dolce Bellezza hosted her 19th Japanese Literature Challenge last month. Once I have written this post it will be the 54th book in this year’s event. Amazing. The book is Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain (1954, serialized 1949-54). The sound of the mountain is a foreboding of death. The novel is about an old man, Shingo, and his midlife crisis. His friends are dying, his two adult…