Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

By:

Yasunari Kawabata

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006Description: 280 pagesISBN:

9780374530495

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

895.6344

LOC classification:

PL832.A9

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Lake Chapala Society	SS KAWA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		69290

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.

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