| Beauty and Sadness Contributor(s): Kawabata, Yasunari (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679761055 ISBN-13: 9780679761051 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96134201 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |