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Original Title:	千羽鶴 [Sembazuru]
ISBN:	0679762655 (ISBN13: 9780679762652)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kikuji, Mrs. Ota, Fumiko
Setting:	Japan

Thousand Cranes Paperback | Pages: 147 pages

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Title	:	Thousand Cranes
Author	:	Yasunari Kawabata
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 147 pages
Published	:	1996 by Vintage (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Cultural. Japan. Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Classics

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An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. 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.

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I've been reading most of the day. Yesterday, too. I've been distracted, if not altogether impatient, and wanting (need? want?) an urgent yet unassuming emotional life in books. All the reflection my brain can eat. The situation was right; thunderstorms and a day off and nothing I couldn't put off for another day. It still felt wasteful. Shouldn't I be doing something else with this luxury? I was really waiting for my Kawabata books to arrive in the mail. The mail doesn't come until around 4:30

There used to be a time when the beauty of a single flower was enough to give a man pleasure, a time when a lone star in the dark expanse of the night gave delight to a wanderer gazing up above, a time when the exquisite beauty of a piece of pottery was enough to evoke the feeling of longing, when the graceful movements of a woman pouring tea stirred the heart. Those times have passed. Appreciation for the elegance found in the simple is now dulled by the seduction of the exciting, the novel,

What a curious and unusual book!It is a very short read and there is a real senseof calm and peace reading it.It is really beautifully and simply written.But even though it is very calming and nice to read itis jam packed with symbolism and some really complex emotivestuff.I can't even begin to understand it all but I would gladlyread it again and again and each time I think I would understandthe symbolism and complexity of these characters relationships more.It really is very captivating and

In this novel we follow the destiny of Kikuji Mitani, a well-off thirty-year-old whose parents died today. He does not really know what to do with his life, caught up in the wanderings of modernization at the work of Japanese society and nostalgia for ancient rites.Kikuji is forever marked by the image of horrific brown spots seen on the chest of Chikako Kurimoto, who was briefly one of the mistresses of his late father, who loved his rival Mrs. Ota more.Kikuji is attached to the ritual of the

There are times when you wonder what is in a certain author's mind as you read a book they have written. This is the question that I kept asking myself throughout this book. I understand that Thousand Cranes symbolises the decay of Japan in the post war world, but even with that understanding, I still didn't get much of what was going on.Kikuji is the protagonist and his sexual viewpoint towards all women he encounters is basically what the book is about. He inherits his father's two mistresses,

2.5 starsMy first venture into anything by Kawabata; this novella centres on the tea ceremony. Kikuji has lost his father and mother; he is a young man and there is the question of his fathers two mistresses and the possibility of whether he ought to marry. There is a great deal of consideration, in an oblique way, of the importance of inheritance and the continuation of tradition. The novel is set in the 1950s in a time of great change in Japan. The prose is precise and describes well the sense

"She died because of herself. If you say it was you who made her die, then it was I even more. If I have to blame anyone, it should be myself. But it only makes her death seem dirty, when we start feeling responsible and having regrets. Regrets and second thoughts only make the burden heavier for the one who has died." (50)This is the third novel that I read by Kawabata, and the best so far. Beauty and Sadness and The Sound of the Mountain were good but not spectacularthey didn't do much for me