Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Published 1949 · 174 pages · 28,152 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Thousand Cranes to read?
Thousand Cranes scores 5.9 out of 10 for difficulty, making it quite demanding.
- Vocabulary complexity: 5.5 out of 10
- Sentence structure: 5.8 out of 10
- Abstract concepts: 6.5 out of 10
- Information density: 5.2 out of 10
Literary standing
Thousand Cranes holds a literary regard score of 7.3 out of 10 on ReadingRate, reflecting its canonical status, critical acclaim, and influence.