Beauty and Sadness

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1996
ISBN: 9780679761051
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d