Thousand Cranes

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Yasunari Kawabata, Kawabata Yasunari
• Assisted by: Seidensticker Edward G. (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 17.04.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945
• EAN: 9780241752098
• ISBN: 978-0-241-75209-8
• Pages: 144
• Dimensions (packing): 11.1 x 18.1 x 1.5 cm
• Series: Penguin Archive
• Subjects: Literature, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Haruki Murakami, Fiction in translation, longing, Penguin Classics, Literary fiction, Classic Books, Japanese book, Classic Literature, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, classic books collection, Novels, Literary gifts, classic novels, classic books for adults, paperback books, book lover gifts, book sets, gifts for readers, book gifts, special edition books, classic literature books, japanese fiction, award winning books, literature books, timeless classics books, prize winning books, penguin books classics, penguin classics paperback, penguin classics book, book collections for adults