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Thousand Cranes

Name: Thousand Cranes
Author: Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata Original title 千羽鶴 (Japanese, 1952)

Thousand Cranes is a 1952 novel by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is divided into five episodes: "Thousand Cranes", "The Grove in the Evening Sun", "Figured Shino", "Her Mother's Lipstick" and "Double Star".

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Thousand Cranes

Source: Thousand Cranes

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Thousand Cranes

Source: Thousand Cranes

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