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Yasunari Kawabata Thousand Cranes

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2025

Paperback

144

Light

322670

978-0-241-75209-8

0-241-75209-4

Fiction in translation

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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.

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