The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories
Subtitle: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: October 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780870117756
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Short stories, Japanese; Japanese Prose; Fiction - General; Fiction; Women; Social life and customs; General; Japan; Translations into English
First sentence: In 1968, Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind."