Palm-of-the-hand stories
By: by Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman.
Contributors: Dunlop, Lane.; Holman, J. Martin.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Kawabata, Yasunari,  -- 1899-1972  -- Translations, English.
Work titles: Short stories. 
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.