Name: Thousand Cranes (Penguin Modern Classics)
SKU: 29816669
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Author: Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN: 9780141192604

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Thousand Cranes (Penguin Modern Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yasunari Kawabata

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0141192607

ISBN13

9780141192604

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Thousand Cranes (Penguin Modern Classics)

Yasunari Kawabata (Author) · Penguin · Paperback

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Synopsis "Thousand Cranes (Penguin Modern Classics) "

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2011-1-1 Pages: 100 Publisher: Penguin Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of hisdead father He is shocked to find there the mistresss rival andsuccessor. Mrs Ota. and that the ceremony.. . has been awkwardlyarranged for him to meet his potential future bride But he is mostshocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs Ota -.. arelationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to allof them Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremonys poeticprecision with understated. lyrical style and beautiful prose.

Yasunari Kawabata

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Yasunari Kawabata (Osaka, Japan, 1899 – 1972) was one of the great writers of the 20th century and the first Japanese to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968), an award given for the delicacy of his prose and his ability to capture the essence of the Japanese spirit

Marked from childhood by orphanhood and deep loneliness, Kawabata expressed in his works a melancholic sensitivity and a unique aesthetic that combines tradition and modernity. Educated in Japanese Literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, he was the founder of the magazine Bungei Jidai (The Artistic Era), the voice of the Japanese neosensualist avant-garde

Among his most emblematic novels are "Snow Country" (Yukiguni), "Thousand Cranes" (Senbazuru), "The Sound of the Mountain" (Yama no Oto), as well as "The Master of Go", "The House of the Sleeping Beauties", "Kyoto" and "Beauty and Sadness". His subtle and poetic narrative explores themes such as ephemeral beauty, loneliness, and the passage of time

In addition to the Nobel, Kawabata received distinctions such as the Goethe-Medaille (Germany, 1959), the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and the Order of Culture of Japan. He was president of the Japanese PEN Club, promoting Japanese literature worldwide

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