Beauty and Sadness

Beauty and Sadness

Kawabata, Yasunari

$404.00 MXN

Sinopsis

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to 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 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.

Editorial:
Vintage
Materia
Literatura oriental
ISBN:
978-0-679-76105-1
Idioma:
Inglés

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