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  • The Book of Tea

  • Penguin Classics
  • By: Okakura Kakuzō
  • Narrated by: Sadao Ueda
  • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Book of Tea

By: Okakura Kakuzō
Narrated by: Sadao Ueda
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Japanese actor Sadao Ueda, known for his appearances in Spectre, London has Fallen and What We Did on Our Holiday.

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of Tea was originally written in English and sought to address the inchoate yearnings of disaffected Westerners. In a flash of inspiration, Okakura saw that the formal tea party as practiced in New England was a distant cousin of the Japanese tea ceremony, and that East and West had thus "met in the tea-cup."
Public Domain (P)2019 Penguin Audio
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History
Asia Eastern
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Bad narration

May be for a person to whom English is his/her native language the English in which narrator speaks - will be quite acceptable and understandable.
But got people like me - to whom English is NOT the first language to understand accented English is a big ask.
I d love to read this book and I am sad I can not listen to it.

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