Palm of the Hand Stories

yasunari kawabata lane dunlop j. martin holman

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 span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and the passage of time, demonstrating the range and complexity of a true master of short fiction.

Genres short storiesjapanfictionjapanese literatureliteratureclassicsasianobel prizeasian literature20th century

262 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1971

This edition

Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Published: November 14, 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374530495
ASIN: 0374530491
Language: English

About the author

yasunari kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today.
Nobel Lecture: 1968
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