by Yasunari Kawabata · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226021540
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«Le Grondement de la montagne» is the novel by Yasunari Kawabata published by Albin Michel in paperback (272 pages, in French).
An old man living in postwar Japan thinks he hears a rumble coming from the mountain and interprets it as an omen of his own death. Between dreams, memories and the contemplation of nature, he observes his family and finds in his young daughter-in-law a presence that draws him away from his obsession with death and old age.
The original title is Yama no Oto (山の音), first published in 1954; the French translation appeared in 1969.
For readers of classical Japanese literature and intimate narrative about old age, memory and nature.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
