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 and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.
| ISBN: | 9780141192611 |
| Publication date: | 6th January 2011 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 139 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |