num_pages: 262
description: 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.
language: English
title: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
titlecomplete: Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (FSG Classics)
genres: Asia, 20th Century, Short Stories, Nobel Prize, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Literature, Japan, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3036
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux