Beauty and Sadness

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. 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.

• | Author: Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2011
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780141192611
• | ISBN-10: 0141192615