Beauty and Sadness - Hardcover

Kawabata, Yasunari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394460553 ISBN 13: 9780394460550

Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1975

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe Medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Japanese (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0394460553
• ISBN 13: 9780394460550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206