In one novel by this author, one character has an abortion, while her husband's mistress gets pregnant, although she says the child is not his. In that work, the protagonist hears the titular sound in his dreams, and in another in which the title character discovers that her parents abandoned her when she meets her twin. One novel has Kikuji dominated by Chicako, which prevents his love for a young woman with the titular kimono. In addition to The Sound of the Mountain and The Old Capital, another novel involves a tragic relationship between a geisha and Shimamura, and begins with the line "The train came out of the long tunnel into" the titular location." The earth lay white under the night sky." For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Thousand Cranes and Snow
In one novel by this author, one character has an abortion, while her husband's mistress gets pregnant, although she says the child is not his. In that work, the protagonist hears the titular sound in his dreams, and in another in which the title character discovers that her parents abandoned her when she meets her twin. One novel has Kikuji dominated by Chicako, which prevents his love for a young woman with the titular kimono. In addition to The Sound of the Mountain and The Old Capital, another novel involves a tragic relationship between a geisha and Shimamura, and begins with the line "The train came out of the long tunnel into" the titular location." The earth lay white under the night sky." For 10 points, name this Japanese author of Thousand Cranes and Snow Country.
In one novel by this author, one character has an abortion, while her husband's mistress gets pregnant, although she says the child is not his.
Yasunari Kawabata