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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241752098
Format: A-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin UK
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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Kikuji 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. In this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.
ISBN: 9780241752098
Format: A-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: Penguin UK
Description:
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
Kikuji 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. In this delicate novella he uses the ceremony as a powerful vehicle for loneliness, yearning and loss of history.