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Thousand Cranes
by Kawabata, Yasunari
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0399505261
- ISBN 13
- 9780399505263
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Tarcherperigree, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x0. Tarcherperigree, 1981. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Remainder. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker. Drawings by Fumi Komatsu Cover illustration by Bob Alcorn, design by Lynn Hollyn. Bright and clean wraps. Remainder mark along spine and lower edge of text block. Internals in Fine Condition. Mr. Kawabata sets his story of a young man involved with the two mistresses of his dead father within the ceremony of tea. A psychological fantasy that leads to tragedy. He has stripped the novel with stylized ceremonies to suggest much larger universal meanings. 8vo. 1981, Tarcherperigree ISBN10: 0399505261, ISBN13: 9780399505263
Synopsis
Thousand Cranes is a novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. This was the first time any Japanese author won this prize.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029232
- Title
- Thousand Cranes
- Author
- Kawabata, Yasunari
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0399505261
- ISBN 13
- 9780399505263
- Publisher
- Tarcherperigree
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 7x5x0
- Keywords
- LITERATURE JAPANESE CULTURE
- X weight
- 0 oz
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