Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata author Edward G Seidensticker translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:17th Apr '25

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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.

ISBN: 9780241752098

Dimensions: 180mm x 110mm x 9mm

Weight: 91g

144 pages