Beauty and Sadness

by Yasunari Kawabata

Overview

Love as sickness and immortality, sex as entrapment and revenge- these are the themes that the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow country dramatizes with such coolly mesmerizing power in this novel. At its heart is a destructive love affair between a married writer and a teenage girl that continue to haunt both of them more than twenty years after their last embrace- and whose lingering bitterness poisons everyone around them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307833631
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/20/2013
Series:	Vintage International
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	295,545
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe Medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.