{"product_id":"thousand-cranes","title":"Thousand Cranes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, felt that the tradition of the tea ceremony had been degraded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003ePages: 144\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0241752094\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780241752098\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yasunari Kawabata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51114184704266,"sku":"","price":8.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780241752098.jpg?v=1746008662","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/thousand-cranes","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}