Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories by Kawabata, Yasunari

ISBN: 0865473250

Author: Kawabata, Yasunari

Condition: new

More than seventy short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author include stories with trick endings; dreamlike, intensely atmospheric stories; stories that crystalize themes from his longer works; autobiographical stories; and stories exploring aspects of the fantastic

• These stories were written over a 50 year period and include the author's last work before his death in 1972, "Cleanings From Snow Country", a miniaturization of his highly acclaimed novel, "Snow Country".