| #1095801 in Books | North Point Pr | 1988-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 238 pages | 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".||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Goodness this is a great collection !!!|By Christopher Barrett|Kawabata is the Nobel Literature winning author of Snow Country among other (novels and short stories). Throughout his amazing literary career, he was fond of writing very short 'palm of the hand' stories. These stories are all 1-3 pages in length, and this collection contains a good number of them (70 in this ver|From Publishers Weekly|Nobel laureate Kawabata is best known in the West for such novels as Snow Country and Thousand Cranes, yet his short stories, written over 50 years, seem to contain his essence as a writer. Here sensitively translated are 70 of them, most
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.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories | Yasunari Kawabata. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
