Beauty and sadness

Book info: Beauty and sadness (Paperback, 206 pages – Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996) – Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996. Language: Eng.

Condition: Good

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 TimesOtoko 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.