A thousand cranes / Yasunari Kawabata

By:

Kawabata, Yasunari

Material type:

TextPublisher: London : Penguin, 2011Description: 101 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780141192604

Subject(s):

Λογοτεχνία

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	MC Athens Campus Library	895.6344 KAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	23/03/2026	9780000100917

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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A thousand cranes / Yasunari Kawabata