Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata Meulenhoff Set in the early postwar

Set in the early postwar years

Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles

liberalisme of despotisme

Extra: Eerste druk

die na harde verhoren die nacht nog bekent en vervolgens zelfmoord pleegt

Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata Meulenhoff Set in the early postwarKikuji 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 a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony's poetic precision