Beauty and Sadness
  • Published:
    Feb-1996
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    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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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Feb-1996
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679761055
    • ISBN13: 9780679761051
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    • Aug-1981
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0399505296
    • ISBN13: 9780399505294
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    • Jan-2011
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0141192615
    • ISBN13: 9780141192611
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    • Jan-1975
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394460553
    • ISBN13: 9780394460550
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    • Feb-2013
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307833631
    • ISBN13: 9780307833631



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