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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, 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.

Beauty and Sadness

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Paperback / softback by Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett

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The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko,... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 06/01/2011
    ISBN13: 9780141192611, 978-0141192611
    ISBN10: 0141192615

    Number of Pages: 144

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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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