Thousand Cranes
$14.75
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241752094 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 91g |
| Dimensions: | 182mm x 112mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
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About The Author
Yasunari Kawabata
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.
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