Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator)

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata, Howard Hibbett (Translator)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. 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

It took her left hand

put soul and spirit at the heart of their existence

not in Margrave

their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar

in this collection the power of his writing-which

notably to combat market failure and induce efficiency in areas such as education

Nobody sees him

who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love

former singer-cum-comedienne

a slayer of wolves

‘one of the most monumental discoveries in biology’ (New York Times)

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