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  <title><![CDATA[Beauty and Sadness]]></title>
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  <default_description>Love as sickness and immortality, sex as entrapment and revenge- these are the themes that the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow country dramatizes with such coolly mesmerizing power in this novel. At its heart is a destructive love affair between a married writer and a teenage girl that continue to haunt both of them more than twenty years after their last embrace- and whose lingering bitterness poisons everyone around them.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1961</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Yasunari Kawabata]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I sometimes wonder how I manage to avoid living under a blanket of sadness myself.  Is the past not fuller than the future?  Does it pose more of a threat to loneliness or is it the cause?  It’s not permanent—I’m not willing to subject myself to that quite yet—but I live mostly alone in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34908447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13251352">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 23 06:15:50 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story about Otaka, a beautiful painter, and her passionate protegee Keiko. Otaka had an affair with a married man (Oki) in her youth; the affair resulted in a pregnancy, the death of that newbord, and Otaka's suicide attempt. It also resulted in that man leaving Otaka, yet later writing a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13251352">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 16 09:11:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 16 09:25:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beauty and Sadness tells of how people damage one another--through greed, seduction, and even through art. All of the characters in this look are manipulative to a certain degree, even our favorites. One of the characters was so blatently irrational that I couldn't tell if Kawabata meant for her to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2027191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2121852">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 19 11:26:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seeking revenge for her love, young painter Keiko seduces novelist Toshio, the man who seduced Keiko's mentor thirty years before.  As neither the novelist or the older artist Otoko have forgotten their affair, each is perversely lured by the opportunity to use the girl as a stand-in for the other. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2121852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4717864">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 17 20:15:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, I would like to say that if my husband made me type up the manuscript of his novel about how he had an affair with a much younger woman, I would freaking bludgeon him with the typewriter.<br/><br/>Second, Mishima certainly was much better at the HOT Japanese lesbian action. The lesbian happ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4717864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56982155">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a quick, easy read. Maybe. Well, it was for me. Reading it, into sleep, three afternoons in a row. And, waking up, later, covered in sweat. And ditto those same three nights. The chair I read in, you see, makes me sweat. <br/><br/>This is a beautiful book. And it's haunting. Especially Kei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56982155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78050485">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 01:02:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 19 11:04:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first impression of this book – logically – was the title and i fell immediately in love with ist simple evocativeness: Beauty and Sadness – i just had to read a book with a title like this. <br/><br/>I needed to take some time and think the book over before sitting down to write a review...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78050485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64033929">
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 18 18:11:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[gw dapet ni buku dari Jalasutra..katanya suh terjemahan dari jalsut tuh jelek..tapi entah kenapa ga da yang janggal dalam bahasa yang disajikan dalam buku ni..kata2nya terasa masuk akal dan nyambungd ari kata per kata...<br/><br/>gw suka dengan karakter2nya khususnya keiko..dan gw suka penggambara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64033929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="747272">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kawabata is one of two Nobel literature prize winners from Japan.  His works are often referred as having the essense of Japanese watercolor paintings.  One can find roots of Japanese culture and asthetics in his writings.]]></body>
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    <review id="1508574">
    <user id="97930">
    <name><![CDATA[Esti]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 29 05:15:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book won nobel so this is something. what gets me the most is the setting; i pictured the japanese landscape and beauty intertwining with the somewhat dark story. the title couldn't be more perfect.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1508574]]></url>
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    <review id="7565433">
    <user id="443577">
    <name><![CDATA[Megachristina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jakarta, Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 10 21:25:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gentle, smooth, beautiful writing, but tragic and sad ending story]]></body>
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    <review id="6377184">
    <user id="390457">
    <name><![CDATA[Aroem]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 18 07:17:01 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 18 07:17:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[beautiful kyoto versus sadness story...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6377184]]></url>
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    <review id="4922402">
    <user id="171770">
    <name><![CDATA[Fatma]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 22 00:48:40 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[love and despair<br/>revenge and lust<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="1432873">
    <user id="97636">
    <name><![CDATA[Alexandra]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 24 23:45:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[To me, this book is perfection.]]></body>
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    <review id="1045139">
    <user id="77353">
    <name><![CDATA[Lewis]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 05 06:50:11 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really smutty.  My favorite book.]]></body>
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    <review id="69342122">
    <user id="1652316">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this more than Thousand Cranes right up to the ending which I thought problematic (look at it one way and it barely qualified for an episode of &quot;Dallas&quot;; although other possible interpretations might be more profound). Kawabata writes simply of love and the things that surround l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69342122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23198668">
    <user id="196763">
    <name><![CDATA[pipitta]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku yg gw pegang terbitan Matahari - Yogyakarta. Baru ngeh kalo ini pertama kali dengar nama penerbitnya, hehe. Terjemahan Max Arifin dari buku berjudul Beauty and Sadness, hasil terjemahan E. Seidensticker. <br/><br/>Dicuplik dari kaver belakang: Kawabata lahir di Osaka, Jepang pada tahun 1899 d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23198668">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="15312168">
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    <name><![CDATA[Louis]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This translated novel, original text was beautifully written in Japanese.  Similar to “The Inferno of Dante” was written in Italian.  Although the main theme of this book was about love to be precise it is a harsh love affair between two characters who are a married writer and a teenage girl for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13333799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Una de las más grandiosas obras de Kawabata. La obra es un homenaje a su título: lo bello y lo triste. Basado en el amor que siente su protagonista a pesar de los años pasados. Toda una vida sacrificada por un amor imposible y a la vez, extremo. Un amor que transformará la vida de todos los pers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52408042">more...</a>]]></body>
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