Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9780307833631
ISBN-13 : 0307833631
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Beauty and Sadness by : Yasunari Kawabata

Download or read book Beauty and Sadness written by Yasunari Kawabata and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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