Annal:1971 National Book Award for Translation
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1971. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker
- 1971 NBA–Translation winner
- Score: 10.21
By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble from the nearby mountain, a sound he associates with death. In between are the relationships that were once the foundation of Shingo’s life: with his disappointing wife, his philandering son, and his daughter-in-law Kikuko, who instills in him both pity and uneasy stirrings of sexual desire.
Out of this translucent web of attachments—and the tiny shifts of loyalty and affection that threaten to sever it irreparably—Kawabata creates a novel that is at once serenely observed and enormously affecting.
- 1971 NBA–Translation winner
- Score: 10.21
