Fiction
Thousand Cranes
Kikuji attends a tea ceremony and discovers that the implements carry the history of his dead father's lovers. Kawabata turns a ritual meant to enforce propriety into a stage for erotic inheritance, where a bowl or a lid rest can become as charged as a body. The mood is autumnal: desire is present, but always filtered through absence, tea steam, and the knowledge that the season is ending.The Rei edition, published by Berkley, presents one of Kawabata's most compressed novels. It is not a book about tea in any instructional sense; it is about the way objects absorb the lives of the people who handle them, and about the impossibility of starting fresh when the past is still being served in a cup that once belonged to someone else.
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