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Thousand cranes / Yasunari Kawabata ; translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780679762652
  • ISBN: 0679762655
  • Physical Description: vi, 147 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International edition
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1968.
Target Audience Note:
620L Lexile
Subject:
Japanese tea ceremony > Fiction.
Japan > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre:
Romance fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library. (Show)

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Madison Main Library FIC KAW (Text) 30229101199247 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library 895.6 KAW (Text) 540191001578372 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Haywood County Main Library F Kawabata (Text) 33115007679868 Adult Fiction Available -
Moss Memorial Library 895.6 KAW (Text) 80605001822146 Adult Nonfiction Available -
West Asheville Library F KAW (Text) 0020510383027 Adult Fiction Available -
Wilkes County Public Library 895.6 KAW (Text) 50501100248810 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 08/21/2026