Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood the story of a clockmaker's

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

some rub wear and a small water stain along bottom of underside [see last photo]

Cover has some wear / light discoloration

she did act like an ordinary kid when he brought home a special present for her

XL Trade paperback in very good condition

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood the story of a clockmaker'sBeauty 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