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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata (author), Edward G. Seidensticker (translator)

Paperback Published on: 17/04/2025; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)

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A true work of art!

A true work of art, the way in which this deeply sad tale is told is utterly affecting. Kawabata uses the central theme of the tea ceremony to draw his wel... READ MORE

Emma Louise Pennell at Chichester

A true work of art.

A true work of art, the way in which this deeply sad tale is told is utterly affecting. Kawabata uses the central theme of the tea ceremony to draw his wel... READ MORE

Emma Prince at Portsmouth

Synopsis

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, felt that the tradition of the tea ceremony had been degraded. In this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.