Name: Beauty and sadness
Rating: 3.541666666666667 (24 reviews)
ISBN: 0679761055

Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and sadness

a convoluted story of revenge and heartbreak; it didn’t really move me

marta

Lo bello y lo triste

Barbara Rosas

Katherine

Victoria Rocabado

Nguyen Hanh Nguyen

Houssine Benboubker

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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