# The Crane Wife

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- Book: [The Crane Wife](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-ness/the-crane-wife) ([The Crane Wife.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-ness/the-crane-wife.md))
- Authors: [Patrick Ness](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-ness)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-617-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-12-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...