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 h
Beauty and Sadness
โ Scribed by Kawabata, Yasunari
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Edition
- ~
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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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