A Thousand Cranes

Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307833662

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Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s 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 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.

Author : Eleanor Coerr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142401137

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eleanor Coerr Pdf

“An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable.” —Booklist, starred review The star of her school’s running team, Sadako is lively and athletic…until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan. "[The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako's death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for 'peace in the world.” —The Horn Book "The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching." —BCCB

Author : Takayuki Ishii
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307806345

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One Thousand Paper Cranes by Takayuki Ishii Pdf

The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako Sasaki died as a result of atomic bomb disease. Sadako's determination to fold one thousand paper cranes and her courageous struggle with her illness inspired her classmates. After her death, they started a national campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue to remember Sadako and the many other children who were victims of the Hiroshima bombing. On top of the statue is a girl holding a large crane in her outstretched arms. Today in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, this statue of Sadako is beautifully decorated with thousands of paper cranes given by people throughout the world.

Author : Masahiro Sasaki,Sue DiCicco
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781462921690

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The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki by Masahiro Sasaki,Sue DiCicco Pdf

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner** **Middle School Book of the Year-- Northern Lights Book Awards** **Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner** For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired a worldwide call for peace. In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time--how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Ten years later, just as life was starting to feel almost normal again, this athletic and enthusiastic girl was fighting a war of a different kind. One of many children affected by the bomb, she had contracted leukemia. Patient and determined, Sadako set herself the task of folding 1000 paper cranes in the hope that her wish to be made well again would be granted. Illustrations and personal family photos give a glimpse into Sadako's life and the horrors of war. Proceeds from this book are shared equally between The Sadako Legacy NPO and The Peace Crane Project.

Author : Florence Temko
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780893469993

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A Thousand Cranes by Florence Temko Pdf

How to fold the famous Japanese Paper Crane and string 1,000 cranes, inspired by the story of Sadako and Hiroshima.

Author : Eleanor Coerr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 0137012683

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr Pdf

Author : Pallavi Aiyar
Publisher : India List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Authors, Indic
ISBN : 085742744X

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A Thousand Cranes for India by Pallavi Aiyar Pdf

In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making. Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, and warning. Their symbolism may have emerged out of Japan's particular mythology and history, but they do not belong to any one nation. The crane is a migratory bird that crosses borders and makes its home with scant regard to the blood-soaked lines that humans have drawn on maps. This anthology uses origami cranes as a way for some of India's best-known writers, poets, and artists to form a shared civic space for a conversation about the fault lines in India at a time of darkness. The twenty-three pieces collected here encompass reportage, stories, poems, memoir, and polemic--the kind of complex and enriching diversity that India demands and deserves. The paper crane becomes a motif of connection, beauty, and reclamation in an otherwise degraded country, enabling those who fight with words to become the best army they can be.

Author : Kathryn Schultz Miller
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871290049

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A Thousand Cranes by Kathryn Schultz Miller Pdf

Author : Mihee Kim-Kort
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827223769

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Making Paper Cranes by Mihee Kim-Kort Pdf

This is not your typical Asian instructional book on Asian crafting or origami. Making Paper Cranes is an attempt to describe an ever emerging life, in an emerging community within Christianity in North America, that is intentionally taking flight and impacting the world. This theological book engages the social histories, literary texts, and narratives of Asian American women, as well as the theological projects of prominent Asian American feminist theologians. It seeks to offer another liberative theological voice. Inherent in its construction is the interconnectedness of all stories that articulate struggle, resistance, and the artistic flourishing of oppressed peoples. Simply put, Making Paper Cranes is about Asian American mothers, daughters, sisters, and women who are imaginatively and courageously crafting their journeys together in and through their Christian faith.

Author : Leonard Bird
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874808247

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Folding Paper Cranes by Leonard Bird Pdf

A haunting memoir by Leonard Bird, a Marine who was exposed to high doses of radiation during the 1950's atmospheric detonations of nuclear weapons in the Nevada desert. He shares his journey to the International Park for World Peace in Hiroshima where he seeks to make peace with his past and with a future shadowed by nuclear proliferation.

Author : Molly Bang
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688073336

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The Paper Crane by Molly Bang Pdf

Business returns to a once prosperous restaurant when a mysterious stranger pays for his meal with a magical paper crane that comes alive and dances.

Author : Megan Merchant
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1635342090

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A Thousand Paper Cranes by Megan Merchant Pdf

With two Pushcart Prize Nominated poems included ("How to Fold an Origami Girl" and "Consuming the Wick"), this short but powerful collection leaves its mark. The poems crease and bend at the center of love and loss much like the way a piece of paper is folded over and again to become a crane, a moon, or a lamp. In the process, the reader is invited along, not just as witness, but participant, and leaves changed.

Author : Masamoto Nasu,Elizabeth W. Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781134956432

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The Children of the Paper Crane: The Story of Sadako Sasaki and Her Struggle with the A-Bomb Disease by Masamoto Nasu,Elizabeth W. Baldwin Pdf

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Naomi Hirahara
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375848810

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1001 Cranes by Naomi Hirahara Pdf

WHEN 12-YEAR-OLD ANGELA Kato arrives in L.A., the last thing she wants to do is spend the entire summer with her grandparents. But in the Kato family, one is never permitted to complain. Grandma Michi and Aunt Janet put Angela to work in their flower shop, folding origami and creating 1001 crane displays for newlyweds. At first, Angela learns the trade begrudgingly. But when her folding skills improve and her relationships with family and friends grow, Angela is able to cope with her troubles, especially her parents’ impending divorce.

Author : Jude Cook
Publisher : Random House
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448134380

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Byron Easy by Jude Cook Pdf

It’s 24 December, 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet – half-cut and suicidal – sits on a stationary train at King’s Cross waiting to depart. In his lap is a bag containing his remaining worldly goods: an empty bottle of red wine, a few books, a handful of crumpled banknotes. He is on the run. Not from the usual writer's trouble – money trouble, soul trouble – but special trouble, of a type you may have problems identifying with at first. As the journey commences, he conjures memories (painful and comic alike) of the recent past, of his roller-coaster London life, and of Mandy – his Amazonian wife – in an attempt to make sense of his terrible, and ordinary, predicament. So what has led him to this point? Where are his friends, his family?What happened to his dreams? And what awaits him at the end of his odyssey north? Byron Easy is an epic, baroque sprawling monster of a novel, and a unique portrait of love and marriage, of the flux of memory, and of England in the dying days of the twentieth century by a young British writer of exceptional promise.