Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories

Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories - Paperback

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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories - Paperback

Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories - Paperback

by Yasunari Kawabata
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by Yasunari Kawabata (Author), Lane Dunlop (Translator), J. Martin Holman (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before World War II had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes, and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.

Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
ISBN9780374530495
Author Yasunari Kawabata
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan's most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story "The Izu Dancer," first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation as one of the preeminent voices of his time, as well as Thousand Cranes (1959), The Sound of the Mountain (1970), The Master of Go (1972), and Beauty and Sadness (1975). He served as the chairman of the P.E.N. Club of Japan for several years and in 1959 he was awarded the Goethe Medal in Frankfurt. Kawabata died in 1972.

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