Lo Bello Y Lo Triste (Novela) / Beauty and Sadness (a Novel)

Ganador del Premio Nobel en 1968.

Impulsado por la nostalgia, Oki Toshio, un escritor casado, decide viajar a Kioto para o r las campanas del templo en el A o Nuevo. Pero adem s quiere ver a Otoko, antigua amante a la que hab a humillado. Todav a hermosa, Otoko, ahora pintora, vive con su protegida Keiko, una joven amoral, sensual y apasionada de apenas veinte a os.

Y lo que comienza como un reencuentro sentimental entre el maduro Oki y la discreta Otoko se convertir en un cruel drama de amor y destrucci n.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1968.

Driven by nostalgia, Oki Toshio, a married writer, decides to travel to Kyoto to hear the temple bells ring in the New Year. But he also wants to see Otoko, a former lover whom he once humiliated. Still beautiful, Otoko, now a painter, lives with her prot g Keiko, a young, amoral, sensual, and passionate woman barely twenty years old.

And what begins as a sentimental reunion between the mature Oki and the reserved Otoko will turn into a cruel drama of love and destruction.