Beauty and Sadness

yasunari kawabata howard s. hibbett

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.

Genres fictionjapanjapanese literatureclassicsliteratureromancenobel prizeasiaasian literaturenovels

206 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1964

Places

japan, kyoto,

This edition

Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Published: January 30, 1996 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679761051
ASIN: 0679761055
Language: English

Characters More characters

About the author

yasunari kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today.
Nobel Lecture: 1968
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...