Thousand Cranes
novel by Kawabata
Also known as: “Sembazuru”
Thousand Cranes, novel by Kawabata Yasunari, published serially in several newspapers beginning in 1949 and published as Sembazuru with the novel Yama no Oto (The Sound of the Mountain) in 1952. One of Kawabata’s finest works, Thousand Cranes was written in part as a sequel to Yukiguni (1948; Snow Country). This melancholy tale uses the classic tea ceremony as a background for the story of a young man’s relationships to two women, his father’s former...
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