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THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN
by Yasunari Kawabata
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good/very good
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Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe-medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.
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- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49379
- Title
- THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN
- Author
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first american edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
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