Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood The Last Call of Mourning

The Last Call of Mourning by Charles L

XL Trade paperback in very good condition

there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family

the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood The Last Call of MourningBeauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata TRADE PAPERBACK [1996] VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL Like new and visibly unread copy w minor trace shelf wear. Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Yasunari Kawabata. Opening on the train to Kyoto, the narrative, in characteristic Kawabata fashion, subtly brings up issues of tradition and modernity as it explores writer Oki Toshio's reunion