Chá e Amor

Chá e Amor, romance escrito antes da atribuição a Kawabata do Prémio Nobel da Literatura, oferece-nos, ao longo só de cinco capítulos, uma história de amor cerzida com os pontos cruciais da psicologia (nomeadamente a feminina), a estética do belo e do feio, o passado e o presente, traumas e desafio a esses traumas, o encontro e o desencontro, a glória de um dia e a solidão qual um beco (talvez...) sem saída. A presente obra de Yasunari Kawabata, traduzida em todas as línguas cultas é um daqueles títulos que podem ombrear com os mais célebres romances que são os altos pontos de referência de todas as literaturas que os séculos nos proporcionam - e que contribuem, sem dúvida nenhuma, para o conhecimento do ser humano. A luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country.'A stunning economy, delicacy of feeling, and a painter's sensitivity to the visible world.”—The Atlantic While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents'deaths, Kikuji encounters his father's former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota's daughter, to whom Kikuji's attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning. An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26014635-thousand-cranes) here . Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabatas Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead. While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents deaths, Kikuji encounters his fathers former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passiona passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Otas daughter, to whom Kikujis attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning. Thousand Cranes, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
 
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.  A young man is involved briefly with the two mistresses of his dead father and with the daughter of one of them. In these limited relationships, the limitless human capacity for inertia and illusion is suggested and the infinite strange combinations of human joy and suffering