Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood Unclipped dust jacket in protective

Unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar cover

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

Its round eyes stared back at her

there was Mildred

Cover has some wear / light discoloration

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood Unclipped dust jacket in protectiveBeauty 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