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Thousand Cranes

By Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1996
ISBN
0679762655, 9780679762652
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
213 kB (218560 bytes)
Pages
147\0
Time added
2013-06-16 17:46:06

Description

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.

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