Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning..
Ota\'s daughter, to whom Kikuji\'s attachments soon extend.
At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion--a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs.
Ota.
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents\' deaths, Kikuji encounters his father\'s former mistress, Mrs.
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.
A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke.--Chicago Tribune.
Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata tells a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead
