num_pages: 201
description: The story of a middle-aged man with regrets who revisits and old affair in his memories, and who tracks down the woman who was once his lover.
language: English
title: Beauty and Sadness
titlecomplete: Beauty and Sadness
characters: Otoko Ueno, Fumiko Oki, Taichiro Oki, Toshio Oki, Keiko Sakami
genres: Asian Literature, Fiction, Japan, Classics, Japanese Literature, Nobel Prize, Asia, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 11980
places: Japan, Kyoto
publisher: Berkley