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Beauty and Sadness (Vintage International)

美しさと哀しみと [Utsukushisa to kanashimi to]

Penned By Yasunari Kawabata
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Beauty and Sadness (Vintage International)

美しさと哀しみと [Utsukushisa to kanashimi to]

Penned By Yasunari Kawabata
4.85 61,235 Ratings
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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.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.

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Length 206 Pages
Language Eng
Released October, 1963
Identifier (ISBN) 14029
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