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A Thousand Cranes (Vintage International (Paperback)) (Paperback)
$11.74 - Save $0.11 - RRP $11.85 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Thousand CranesNobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. "A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke".--Chicago Tribune.
Full description- Publisher: Random House USA Paperbacks
- Published: 01 November 1996
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780679762652 ISBN 10: 0679762655
- Sales rank: 36,713
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Full description for A Thousand Cranes
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. "A novel of exquisite artistry...rich suggestibility...and a story that is human, vivid and moving."--New York Herald Tribune 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
