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Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata
Beauty and Sadness - Thryft
Beauty and Sadness - Thryft

Intimate exploration of love's enduring echoes.

If you're drawn to the beauty within life's complex emotions, "Beauty and Sadness" will speak to your soul. Yasunari Kawabata masterfully intertwines the past with the present, revealing how old flames can still warm and scald. This novel is a delicate web of relationships, artfully painted with the brushstrokes of traditional Japanese culture and the universal intricacies of the human heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata
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ISBN: 9780140082012
Authors: Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 1979-02-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance
Related Topics: Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.82
(rated by 12439 readers)

Description

Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: 美しさと哀しみと Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata.Opening on the train to Kyoto, the narrative, in characteristic Kawabata fashion, subtly brings up issues of tradition and modernity as it explores writer Oki Toshio's reunion with a young lover from his past, Otoko Ueno, who is now a famous artist and recluse. Ueno is now living with her protegée and a jealous lover, Keiko Sakami, and the unfolding relationships between Oki, Otoko, and Keiko form the plot of the novel. Keiko states several times that she will avenge Otoko for Oki's abandonment, and the story coalesces into a climactic ending.
 

Intimate exploration of love's enduring echoes.

If you're drawn to the beauty within life's complex emotions, "Beauty and Sadness" will speak to your soul. Yasunari Kawabata masterfully intertwines the past with the present, revealing how old flames can still warm and scald. This novel is a delicate web of relationships, artfully painted with the brushstrokes of traditional Japanese culture and the universal intricacies of the human heart.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.