BEAUTY & SADNESS • Yasunari Kawabata
Alfred A. Knopf / 1975
Hardcover / 206 pages
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.
︎Condition note: A used book in Very Good condition / Some light tanning and fading to dustjacket and pages / light shelfwear / book comes wrapped in protective mylar
Alfred A. Knopf / 1975
Hardcover / 206 pages
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.
︎Condition note: A used book in Very Good condition / Some light tanning and fading to dustjacket and pages / light shelfwear / book comes wrapped in protective mylar