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. Otoko has continued to love Oki...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679761051 (0679761055)
Publish date: January 30th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 209
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Nobel Prize,
Japanese Literature
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