by Yasunari Kawabata · Emecé Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789500425193
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A Thousand Cranes is a novel by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. The story takes place in the city of Kamakura and explores themes such as desire, remorse, and sensuality. A woman manipulates precious objects in a rite, transmitting the weight of eroticism from one generation to another. A young man inherits the love obsessions of his father, an expert in the tea ceremony. Throughout the story, a thousand cranes in flight appear as a mysterious omen. The novel explores the power of desire, remorse, and the sensuality of nostalgia, where every gesture has a profound meaning.
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.
