About the Book: A Thousand Cranes for India
In Japan there is a legend that anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will
have their wishes realized. But folding cranes, and the meditative, solemn care
that it involves, has come to mean more than just an exercise in wish making.
Origami cranes have become a symbol of renewal, atonement, and warning. Their
symbolism may have emerged out of Japans particular mythology and history, but
they do not belong to any one nation. The crane is a migratory bird that crosses
borders and makes its home with scant regard to the blood-soaked lines that
humans have