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      Beauty and Sadness

      by Yasunari Kawabata
      Published
      Feb 1996
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      206
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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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      General Fiction

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      Comedy / Humor

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