| Thousand Cranes Contributor(s): Kawabata, Yasunari (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679762655 ISBN-13: 9780679762652 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1996 Annotation: 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.
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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Asian American |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97120691 |
| Lexile Measure: 620 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.1" W x 8" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |