Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata
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Publisher:
Vintage
Genre:Fiction
Language: en
Published:January 30, 1996
ISBN13:9780679761051
ISBN10:0679761055

About the Book

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before. "Endlessly provocative and original." —The New York Times Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover. This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.