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Thousand Cranes

By Yasunari Kawabata
Series: Penguin Archive
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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata is one of 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... Read More
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Thousand Cranes

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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata is one of 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.

Series: Penguin Archive

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241752098

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
  • Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 9.0mm

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 91g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

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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