Thousand Cranes

Informationen zum Autor Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country , A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go . Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972. Klappentext ' Thousand Cranes has the qualities of the best Japanese writing: a stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter's sensitivity to the visible world' Atlantic Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota - a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony's poetic precision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose. Zusammenfassung Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs Ota.

Product details

• Authors: Edward G. Seidensticker, Kawabata Yasunari, Yasunari Kawabata
• Assisted by: Edward G. Seidensticker (Translation), Seidensticker Edward G. (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.01.2011
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780141192604
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119260-4
• Pages: 112
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 0.6 cm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
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