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Penguin Press
February 2014
On Sale: January 23, 2014
Featuring: George Duncan; Kumiko
320 pages
ISBN: 1594205477
EAN: 9781594205477
Kindle: B00DQV7QYS
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Fantasy
A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that
imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed
when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in
his backyard.
George Duncan is an
American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he
owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he
realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships
eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night he
is woken by an astonishing sound—a terrific keening, which
is coming from somewhere in his garden. When he
investigates he finds a great white crane, a bird taller
than even himself. It has been shot through the wing with
an arrow. Moved more than he can say, George struggles to
take out the arrow from the bird's wing, saving its life
before it flies away into the night sky.
The next
morning, a shaken George tries to go about his daily life,
retreating to the back of his store and making cuttings from
discarded books—a harmless, personal hobby—when through the
front door of the shop a woman walks in. Her name is
Kumiko, and she asks George to help her with her own
artwork. George is dumbstruck by her beauty and her
enigmatic nature, and begins to fall desperately in love
with her. She seems to hold the potential to change his
entire life, if he could only get her to reveal the secret
of who she is and why she has brought her artwork to
him.
Witty, magical, and romantic, The Crane
Wife is a story of passion and sacrifice, that resonates
on the level of dream and myth. It is a novel that
celebrates the creative imagination, and the disruptive
power of love.
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