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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 storieswhich he called Palm-of-the-Hand Storieswritten 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.

PalmoftheHand Stories

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    Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
    Publication Date: 14/11/2006
    ISBN13: 9780374530495, 978-0374530495
    ISBN10: 0374530491
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    Book Synopsis

    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 storieswhich he called Palm-of-the-Hand Storieswritten 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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