Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata [1981 TRADE PAPERBACK]

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata [translation by Edward G. Seidensticker]

VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1981] WIDEVIEW / PERIGREE BOOKS 

Book is in excellent condition.  Like new and seemingly unread with a hint of wear and tanning to cover. 

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 and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.