Details

ISBN-10: 0679761055
ISBN-13: 9780679761051
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 01/30/1996
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.20" W, 0.60" H

Beauty and Sadness

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Overview

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 before.

“Endlessly provocative and original.” —The New York Times

Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continues 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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Details

ISBN-10: 0679761055
ISBN-13: 9780679761051
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: 01/30/1996
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.20" W, 0.60" H
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