Tokyoites
by G
About This Novel
Following "Snow Country", this is a super-long masterpiece from the golden age of creation, confronting the incompleteness and destruction of beauty, the difficulty of survival, and human desire and loneliness. People living in Tokyo have no hometown. Keiko, who lost her husband, met Shunzo Shimaki and his daughter Yumiko. Junzo's wife has been recuperating away from home for many years due to illness, so Keiko and Junzo formed a strange family. Keiko's business is getting better and better. She not only supports the family's expenses, but also bears the medical expenses of Junsan's wife. However, Junsan's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. One day, Junzo suddenly left without saying goodbye and disappeared. In a home that was reorganized like two broken mirrors, Keiko, together with her biological children and adopted daughter, experienced the world's human kindness and kindness in the joys and sorrows of separation, telling a Tokyo story full of love and loneliness.
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The hibiscus flowers bloom in the morning and fade in the evening; the dancing butterflies may break their wings and die in a gust of wind. There is nothing more impermanent than this in life, but this fleeting impermanence can often leave people with an aftertaste of beauty. This is the origin of the "light sadness of beauty" in Kawabata Yasunari's works.
I really like Kawabata Yasunari's books. Kawabata is a well-deserved literary giant.
Passing mission. . . . . .
Excellent skills and vivid characters
The addiction is over before you finish it, stay strong and live on
The addiction is over before you finish it, stay strong and live on
Tokyo's human fireworks
As Tokyoites pay their respects to Kawabata in the New Year, with the rapid economic development after the war, people are a little confused materially and spiritually, as if they can't keep up with the rhythm, and are accompanied by pressure and loneliness. Strength and forbearance. Shirai Keiko's Family, a 700,000-word story, and I'm still not satisfied with it at the end.
It's a bit expensive, so it's better to buy paper books, which can be bought for about 50 yuan.
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Official(7)Scraped 2mo ago
The hibiscus flowers bloom in the morning and fade in the evening; the dancing butterflies may break their wings and die in a gust of wind. There is nothing more impermanent than this in life, but this fleeting impermanence can often leave people with an aftertaste of beauty. This is the origin of the "light sadness of beauty" in Kawabata Yasunari's works.
I really like Kawabata Yasunari's books. Kawabata is a well-deserved literary giant.
Passing mission. . . . . .
Excellent skills and vivid characters
The addiction is over before you finish it, stay strong and live on
The addiction is over before you finish it, stay strong and live on
Tokyo's human fireworks
As Tokyoites pay their respects to Kawabata in the New Year, with the rapid economic development after the war, people are a little confused materially and spiritually, as if they can't keep up with the rhythm, and are accompanied by pressure and loneliness. Strength and forbearance. Shirai Keiko's Family, a 700,000-word story, and I'm still not satisfied with it at the end.
It's a bit expensive, so it's better to buy paper books, which can be bought for about 50 yuan.
