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  <title><![CDATA[The Sound of the Mountain]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Yasunari Kawabata]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The sound of the mountain is a harbinger of death. Or at least, that’s what Kawabata’s 62-year old protagonist, Shingo, understands it to be. A man haunted by his love for his homely wife’s long deceased beautiful sister, he finds the same love reawakened within himself through the presence of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6227783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42625809">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite book. I read a lot Japanese literature in general, but I love Kawabata and think that this is his masterpiece. Kawabata's writing is spare yet poignant, and the impact is not felt in the reader's imagination or emotion, but rather in her mood.<br/>Kawabata, like many Japanese, d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42625809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13621073">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much in the sense that the Japanese designate 24 different seasons in a year, Kawabata demonstrates this distinct sensivity in his writing, as he depicts the poignant nuances of human relationships and the slow but sure passage of time as death draws near.  The novel carries the emotional weight of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13621073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45876896">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[From one perspective, this is a very ordinary story of a family that is more unhappy than not, whose unhappiness is founded not in over-the-top angst, but in the every day disappointments of life. The son is having an affair; the daughter is in the process of separating from her husband; the father ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45876896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59584247">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meredith]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 15 22:32:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What strikes me about a lot of Kawabata's post-war fiction is its attendant silence. There are no melodramatic climaxes, no cheap tricks to shock the reader's sensibilities. What plot contrivance, after all, could rival the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, of World War II itself? <br/><br/>The e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59584247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62202941">
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    <name><![CDATA[Madhuri]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 05 08:31:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 22:35:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many prose writings are described as poetic. But the Sound of the Mountain from Kawabata is one where I could feel the poetry. A smooth, transient flow of thoughts, which seemed both beautiful and seamless.<br/>It is almost a Stream of Consciousness novel, a Memento Mori. In his old days, which he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62202941">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="76363078">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 01 06:48:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 10 15:26:11 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is about a man, Shingo, who's facing the reality of aging and feeling sad about his life.  I feel that he's evaluating his life to decide whether it has been a good life.  His son, Shuichi, is married to Kikuko, but also has a mistress.  And his daughter, Fusako, also has a failed marriage...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76363078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77675907">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 13 13:23:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 15 15:32:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so well written, so lyrical and evocative, with descriptions of nature and natural metaphors. It presents a picture of everyday life in Japan that is recognizable to Western readers since despite the cultural differences, the situations depict universal experience. The relationships bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77675907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75748775">
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    <name><![CDATA[Whitaker]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Singapore]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 26 01:27:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 09 07:37:43 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book shortly after finishing Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>An Artist of the Floating World</em>. Both books cover similar ground: a man in the twilight of his years reflecting on his past. I was going to write a review about how the book deals with old age and coming to terms with our life, about how Ka...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75748775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77576926">
    <user id="2868459">
    <name><![CDATA[Kenneth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Evocative use of nature. There are points where the translation just doesn't make sense so I was left wondering what was meant or even who had acted or spoken. The cross-cultural sensitivity created by this book and the sensitivity to the women who in one way or another lost men in war was particula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77576926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41605161">
    <user id="1511357">
    <name><![CDATA[Anne]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 09:39:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 11:14:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is growing on me. At first I found the symbolism and imagery oppressive, but I'm increasingly coming to appreciate Kawabata's technique. There are times, I find in writing, when words fail to express the nuance I want. Here is where Kawabata is master. There is a feeling about this book th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41605161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52486747">
    <user id="1888594">
    <name><![CDATA[Claire]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[Constant Reader is reading soon, sounds interesting.]]></body>
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    <review id="7870919">
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    <name><![CDATA[C(h)ristine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 17 21:25:46 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this would be a fitting way to end a year of reading. I almost don’t want to pick up another book for the last few days of 2006 so that I can let this one linger as I close out this year and ring in 2007. I loved this book, it may be my favorite of all Kawabata’s novels so far. Here are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7870919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74817136">
    <user id="1056992">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 06:51:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing in this book is really lovely - very different and it just kind of carries you along - I swear you feel calmer and more serene when reading this!]]></body>
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    <review id="111528">
    <user id="12104">
    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was nice.  I did enjoy the writing style and character development, though I felt that the plot line was a little blah.  Not bad or boring, and actually very much a 'real' plot line when it comes to actual real life events, but lacking something that made me really like this book. Overall,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/111528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72351594">
    <user id="237344">
    <name><![CDATA[Rashida]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mount Rainier, MD]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely, lyrical passages.  The book is suffused with metaphor and symbolism.  This is a story on many different levels, and I may have missed some of the finer points.  I think also that someone who knows more about Japanese post-war society might have a deeper connection to the book.  Still, I'm gl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72351594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13483296">
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    <name><![CDATA[Will]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a powerful work--a traditional family, late-mid 1900s, told through the eyes of the aging patriarch....<br/><br/>a serious look at aging &amp; the changing of tradition, maybe the best work of literature that I've read which dealt with this theme.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read everything I have ever found by Yasunari Kawabata, possibly everything he's ever written and have never been disappointed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part family drama, part meditation on aging. I liked it a lot, I think I may prefer this to Snow Country. ]]></body>
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