Beauty and Sadness
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata
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, and discovers that she 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.
Product Information
'One is repeatedly moved by the delicacy of the imagery and the understated precision' - New Statesman
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.114
- : 01 January 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 144
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Yasunari Kawabata