Thousand Cranes

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’s 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.

Author: Yasunari Kawabata

Series: Penguin Archive

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9780241752098

Number of pages: 144

Size: 182х112х10 mm

Cover type: soft

Weight: 91 g

ID: 1736246

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’s 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.

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