Thousand Cranes (Vintage International)
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Book Description
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
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Japanese
Thousand Cranes (Vintage International)
Thousand Cranes (Vintage International),Yasunari Kawabata,Vintage,0679762655,Fiction - General,Kawabata, Yasunari - Prose & Criticism,Literary,Literature: Folklore/Mythology,Fiction / Literary,Japanese,Modern fiction
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