Thousand Cranes

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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 succe ssor 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. Format: PaperbackPublished: 2025Publisher: Penguin Books LtdPages: 144Language: EnglishISBN 10: 0241752094ISBN 13: 9780241752098 Show more