# Beauty and Sadness

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- Book: [Beauty and Sadness](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata/beauty-and-sadness) ([Beauty and Sadness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata/beauty-and-sadness.md))
- Authors: [Yasunari Kawabata](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasunari-kawabata)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-261-1
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2011-01-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.