Palm-of-the-hand stories

川端康成

Translated by Lane Dunlop first published 1988 North Point Press, 1988 hardcover 238 pages

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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Lane Dunlop 1 printing we hold · 1988 · North Point Press

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Palm-of-the-hand stories edition · 1989 · Picador · 238 pages
Palm-of-the-hand stories hardcover · 1988 · North Point Press · 238 pages

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