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Beauty and Sadness

By Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and Sadness Contemporary literature

Beauty and Sadness

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Description
The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to 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 continues 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 details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
1996-01-30
Publication Date:
1996-01-30
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679761055
ISBN13:
9780679761051
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
286 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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