Palm-of-the-Hand Stories [Paperback]

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 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.

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