Thousand Cranes
144 pages2025Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780241752098
FictionClassics
About this book
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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Published
- 2025
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780241752098
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
川端 康成（かわばた やすなり[注釈 2]、1899年〈明治32年〉6月14日 - 1972年〈昭和47年〉4月16日）は、日本の小説家・文芸評論家。日本芸術院会員、文化功労者、文化勲章受章者。1968年に日本人初のノーベル文学賞を受賞した。位階・勲等は正三位・勲一等。大正から昭和の戦前・戦後にかけて活躍した近現代日本文学を代表する作家の一人である。 ---------- Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata (川端 康成, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
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