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Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata • Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)
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- 1996
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- 147 PAGES
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This lovely novella, Kawabata's best known work, begins with a tea ceremony -- a spare, scripted, traditional ritual -- and goes on to consider the place of tradition in modern Japan. It's a story of love, grief, and redemption. Kawabata's prose is as economical as the tea ceremony itself, and very beautiful. This Vintage edition is illustrated with wonderful pen-and-ink drawings by Fumi Kobatsu.
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