A Thousand Cranes
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. "A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke."--Chicago Tribune.
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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. "A brief, compact dramatic story as delicate and finely detailed as the small ivory carvings called netsuke."--Chicago Tribune.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307833662 (0307833666)
ASIN: 9780307833662
Publish date: 26-02-2013
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Nobel Prize,
Japanese Literature,
Fiction
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