The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata Diplomat this will be your go to FNBPT this will be your go to pen for whenever inspiration strikes But beneath the game’s decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and retainers—tensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in death From the Nobel Prize winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age—about an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time