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.

• | By (Author): Yasunari Kawabata
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2011
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0141192615
• | ISBN-13: 9780141192611