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Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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. A Sunny Place -- The Weaker Vessel -- The Girl Who Approached The Fire -- A Saw And Childbirth -- The Grasshopper And The Bell Cricket -- The Ring -- Hair -- Canaries -- Harbor Town -- Photograph -- The White Flower -- The Incident Of The Dead Face -- Glass -- T The O-shin Jizō -- The Sliding Rock -- Thank You -- The Silverberry Thief -- Summer Shoes -- A Child's Viewpoint -- Love Suicides -- The Maidens' Prayers -- Toward Winter -- The Sparrow's Matchmaking -- The Hat Incident -- One Person's Happiness -- There Is A God -- Goldfish On The Roof -- Mother -- Morning Nails -- The Young Lady Of Suruga -- Yuriko -- God's Bones -- A Smile Outside The Night Stall -- The Blind Man And The Girl -- The Wife's Search -- Her Mother's Eye -- Thunder In Autumn -- Household -- The Rainy Station -- At The P

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher
San Francisco: North Point Press
Published
1988
Language
EN
ISBN
9780865473256
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction
Rating
4.02 / 5 (23 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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