The Sound of the Mountain Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013) Love and Death

Love and Death

as your eyes are opened to a more beautiful way of looking at the world

Winner of the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction

And he’s not talking

The Sound of the Mountain Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013) Love and DeathOgata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter in law are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we