# 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: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-105-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1996-01-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • 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...