The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories
Subtitle: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction (Japan's Modern Writers)
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: May 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780870119262
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Translations into English; Short stories, English; Fiction - General; Fiction; Women; Short Stories (Anthologies); Short stories, Japanese; Translations from Japanese
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."