{"product_id":"thousand-cranes-rei","title":"Thousand Cranes","description":"\u003cp\u003eKikuji 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479472648404,"sku":"0425043711","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/220811-RD19_1.jpg?v=1786841998","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/thousand-cranes-rei","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}