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Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと, Hepburn: Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1961–63 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is narrated from the present and past perspective of the characters and how they differed from each other's point of view.
- Yasunari Kawabata
- 1964
Yasunari Kawabata, Howard S. Hibbett (Translator) 3.81. 13,032 ratings1,421 reviews. 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.
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- Yasunari Kawabata
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About Beauty and Sadness. 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.
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Jan 1, 2011 · Beauty and Sadness is told by Oki Toshio, a famed Japanese novelist looks up his ex of 20 years past (Yomiura, a short story from the First Snow on Fuji collection, invokes a visit to the 'novelist' of a vaguely remembered acquaintance from 30 years ago to surreal result) on the pretense of hearing the New Years temple bells in her ...
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- Yasunari Kawabata
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.
Yasunari Kawabata. Perigee Books, 1981 - Fiction - 206 pages. "Beauty and Sadness" is Nobel Prize winner Kawabata's last novel. As the story opens, Oki Toshio -- a successful...
Beauty and Sadness - Ebook written by Yasunari Kawabata. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take...
