Thousand cranes / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972.

Contributor:

Seidensticker, Edward, 1921-2007.

Standardized Title:

Senbazuru. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese tea ceremony--Fiction.

Japanese tea ceremony.

Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Japan.

Japan--Fiction.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Novels.

novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

vi, 147 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

1st Vintage International ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1996.

Summary:

A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents' deaths, Kikuji encounters his father's former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion--a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota's daughter, to whom Kikuji's attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Note on the Tea Ceremony, the Backdrop for This Novel

Thousand cranes

The Grove in the Evening Sun

Figured Shino

Her Mother's Lipstick

Double Star.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1958.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 3

Other Format:

Online version: Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972. Senbazuru. English. Thousand cranes.

ISBN:

0679762655

9780679762652

OCLC:

36083380

Online:

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