Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Yasunari Kawabata with Lane Dunlop (Translator), J. Martin Holman (Translator)

288 pages first pub 1920 (editions)

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

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Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the s...

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