Thousand Cranes Paperback - 1996
by Yasunari Kawabata
Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. "A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke".--Chicago Tribune.
From the jacket flap
With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father's mistress. A tale of desire, regret, and sensual nostalgia, every gesture has a meaning, and even the most fleeting touch or casual utterance has the power to illuminate entire lives--sometimes in the same moment that it destroys them. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
"A novel of exquisite artistry...rich suggestibility...and a story that is human, vivid and moving."--New York Herald Tribune
Kawabata is a poet of the gentlest shades, of the evanescent, the imperceptible. This is a tragedy in soft focus, but its passions are fierce."--Commonweal
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- Title Thousand Cranes
- Author Yasunari Kawabata
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1996-11-26
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780679762652 / 0679762655
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.1 x 0.5 in (20.32 x 12.95 x 1.27 cm)
- Reading level 620
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Japan
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97120691
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 01/05/1997, Page 28
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