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honnari_hannya 's review for:
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
The story of a young bachelor who, in the wake of his father's death, gets entangled with his father's mistress and her daughter—set against the backdrop of the formality and tradition of tea ceremonies.
There are so many undercurrents running through the conversations between the characters of this book: the new and the old, the occident and the orient, the relationship between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons. It is definitely a book that you will have to read more than once in order to parse out various interpretations. I love the way Kawabata transposes bodies and vessels—and the relationships between them—onto one another, so that history is carried forth from the past to the present, and into the future. Over it all, a sense of anxiety hangs over the three main characters as they try to navigate the strange connections that have formed between them, ending in a moment of quiet terror as those bonds (and bodies and vessels) are shattered.
There are so many undercurrents running through the conversations between the characters of this book: the new and the old, the occident and the orient, the relationship between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons. It is definitely a book that you will have to read more than once in order to parse out various interpretations. I love the way Kawabata transposes bodies and vessels—and the relationships between them—onto one another, so that history is carried forth from the past to the present, and into the future. Over it all, a sense of anxiety hangs over the three main characters as they try to navigate the strange connections that have formed between them, ending in a moment of quiet terror as those bonds (and bodies and vessels) are shattered.