For five hundred years the immortal Children of the Light, einherjar and valkyrie, have lived together in the North of Valdyrgard. They were born out of the Sea, each with a shining crystal sword in his or her hand; they are Angels of Light created in the formation of a new world. But three have com
The Sound of the Mountain
โ Scribed by Yasunari Kawabata
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing;Turtle Publishing
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 336 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9784805306635
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Few novels have depicted the predicament of old age more evocatively than The Sound of the Mountain. For in his portrait of an elderly Tokyo businessman, Yasunari Kawabata charts the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.
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