THOUSAND CRANES by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Trans) ( 9780141192604 )

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Title:

THOUSAND CRANES

By:

Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Trans)

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ISBN 10:

0141192607

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9780141192604

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 2011

Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

Pages:

112

Translated from:

Japanese

Description:

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs Ota.

Synopsis:

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota - a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony's poetic precision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose.

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