Beauty And Sadness

Informationen zum Autor Yasunari Kawabata Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • 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. "Endlessly provocative and original." — The New York Times 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.

Product details

• Authors: Y Kawabata, Yasunari Kawabata
• Assisted by: Howard S. Hibbett (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.01.1996
• EAN: 9780679761051
• ISBN: 978-0-679-76105-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature