Snow country and Thousand cranes

Author(s)

• 川端, 康成 カワバタ, ヤスナリ
• Seidensticker, Edward
• Ishiguro, Kazuo

Bibliographic Information

Snow country and Thousand cranes

Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker ; with an introduction by Kazuo Ishiguro

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin Books, 1986

Other Title

雪国

千羽鶴

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The action in "Thousand Cranes" centres around an art which crystallizes the values of traditional Japan, the tea ceremony, while "Snow Country" is set in the remote northern mountains of Honshu, and tells of the love between a local geisha and a man from Tokyo.

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Details

• NCID: BA31531399
• ISBN:
  • 0140181180
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 203 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL832.A9
  • NDC8 : 913.6
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461