Thousand Cranes is one of three novels cited by the Nobel Committee in awarding Yasunari Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature, the other two being Snow Country and The Old Capital. The novel was selected for translation and inclusion in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.
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