Thousand Cranes (Penguin Archive
Yasunari Kawabata
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Release Date: 17/04/2025
Genre: Fiction
Translator: Edward G. Seidensticker
Label: Penguin Classics
Series: Penguin Archive
Contributors: Edward G. Seidensticker (Translated by)
Language: Japanese, English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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 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.