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, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for Yasunari Kawabata's Beauty and Sadness
Hardback Editions
February 1975 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
January 2011 : UK Paperback
Title: Beauty and Sadness (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 0-14-119261-5 / 978-0-14-119261-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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January 1996 : USA Paperback
August 1989 : UK Paperback
February 1986 : UK Paperback
July 1981 : USA Paperback
June 1979 : UK Paperback
1976 : USA Paperback
Title: Beauty and Sadness
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 0-425-03066-0 / 978-0-425-03066-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Berkley
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Audio Editions
October 2010 : UK Audio edition
Title: Beauty and Sadness
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Audible Studios
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Kindle Editions
February 2013 : USA, Canada Kindle edition
January 2011 : UK Kindle edition
Title: Beauty and Sadness (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Penguin
Availability: Amazon UK