| #159887 in Books | Yasunari Kawabata Edward G Seidensticker | 1996-11-26 | 1996-11-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.40 x5.15l,.35 | File Name: 0679762655 | 147 pages | Thousand Cranes
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Not enough lift in Thousand Cranes to gain altitude|By Knobby Walsh|Thousand Cranes is dated with little insight or elaboration of the main characters or events. However, the rose and imagery are beautiful.b|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By debbie|Pretty bleak, but interesting take on love||“A literary habitat like no other . . . quietly devastating fiction. . . . Behind a lyrical and understated surface, chaotic passions pulse.” |—The Independent (London)| | “Thousand Cranes has the qualities of the b
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...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Thousand Cranes | Yasunari Kawabata. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
