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Thousand Cranes

by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes - Thryft
Thousand Cranes - Thryft
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Thousand Cranes

by Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata
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ISBN: 9784805309711
Authors: Edward G. Seidensticker, Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Date of Publication: 2007-09-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance
Related Topics: Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 13009 readers)

Description

Thousand Cranes is a story of love given and love withheld. Set against the backdrop of Japan's traditional tea ceremony, it is a taut, highly dramatic novel gleaming with sudden passages of poetic beauty. In one of the book's strongest scenes, the two characters are symbolized by the two fine old China bowls, one female and one male, that sit before them.The novel opens with Kikuji on his way to a tea ceremony given by Chikako, one of his father's former mistresses. He is also on his way to act out the unfinished drama of his father's life. Kikuji's father had been a cultivated man, an art lover and a pleasure seeker. He had cast off one mistress, Chikako, but had loved another, Mrs Ota, until his death. Kikuji, like his father, tries to escape from Chikako, now masculine and meddlesome. Like his father, too, he is drawn to Mrs Ota, who has remained young, alluring and pliant even though her daughter, Fumiko, is only twenty years old. Kikuji's guilty passion for Mrs Ota and Fumiko's efforts to alter the family fate lead to the novel's stunning climax.
 
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.