Thousand Cranes in Never too Late to Read Classics

May 16, 2012 Chrissie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: japan, audible-us

Beautiful, but I have a hard time with the heavy symbolism. The tea ceremony plays a central role.

A very short audiobook. Excellent narration by Brian Nishii.

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Jun 09, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was ok

Shelves: 1001-books

I think perhaps I am the wrong audience for this book. I found it to be demeaning and misogynistic. I know it represents another time and culture but the treatment of the women in this book took me out of the story and made me dislike the protagonist. I could not connect with either the story or the characters.

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Jan 06, 2015 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel-the-world

Kawabata uses the Tea Ceremony almost as a character in Thousand Cranes, because it is the setting for which most of the book takes place. We first meet Kikuji Mitani on his way to a Tea Ceremony that is in memory of his father, given by one his father's mistresses, Chikako. At this ceremony we meet all the characters in the book, and we feel the tension between them almost immediately. Chikako is not only hosting the Tea Ceremony but is acting as a matchmaker between Kikuji and her student in t ...more

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Dec 30, 2014 GONZA rated it really liked it · review of another edition

La storia di Kukiji e delle sue donne, che prima di essere sue erano del padre, é molto bella, anche se parecchio inquietante. Come al solito Kawabata riesce a rendere con le sue parole sempre molto misurate, anche situazioni parecchio scabrose senza che queste diventino, per certi versi, fastidiose.

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