Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood And soon Bart's transformation began

And soon Bart's transformation began

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

XL Trade paperback in very good condition

Unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar cover

there was Mildred

Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata [1996 TRADE PAPERBACK] hollywood And soon Bart's transformation beganBeauty 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