A review by elfs29
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata

reflective slow-paced

3.0

At it’s core, this is a story of the human condition and an aging grandfather’s attempt to understand it, within himself and his family. Very slow, winding language and very beautiful descriptions carve out relationships and questions about them, why people treat each other the way they do, and why we feel things we cannot control.

Not in a grave. And not dying. Just resting. If it were possible to rest in the ground - you would wake up after fifty thousand years and find all your own problems settled and the problems of the world, and you would be in paradise.