Thousand Cranes Penguin Archive

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241752098
Published: April 2025

Number of pages: 144
Width: 110 mm
Height: 180 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd