This epic family novel by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata won a National Book Award in 1970 for Edward G. Seidensticker's translation. Shingo Ogata, the aging patriarch of a Tokyo family, begins to question many of his life choices as he feels the approach of death. Shingo blames himself for the dysfunctional marriages of his son and daughter, and he attempts to achieve redemption by warning his son not to repeat his own mistakes of the past. Shingo's point of view is notably distorted by his increasingly prevalent dream life, as significant figures from his past parade through his sleep each night, offering their own assessment of his existence. Shingo finds himself losing his ability to enact and control the events of his children's lives, and thus his own life as well, but this surrender to fate is softened by a swelling appreciation for the natural world, which he begins to notice for the first time.
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