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Palm-of-the-hand stories / by Yasunari Kawabata ; translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman.
Van Pelt Library PL832.A9 T413 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Tenohira no shōsetsu. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972--Translations into English.
- Kawabata, Yasunari.
- Kawabata, Yasunari, 1899-1972.
- Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 259 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- Summary:
- Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.
- Contents:
- 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
- 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 pawnshop
- Lavatory buddhahood
- The man who did not smile
- Samurai descendant
- The rooster and the dancing girl
- Makeup
- The bound husband
- Sleeping habit
- Umbrella
- Death mask
- Faces
- The younger sister's clothes
- The wife of the autumn wind
- A pet dog's safe birthing
- Hometown
- Water
- The silver fifty-sen pieces
- Tabi
- The jay
- Bamboo-leaf boats
- Eggs
- The snakes
- Autumn rain
- The neighbors
- Up in the tree
- Riding clothes
- Immortality
- Earth
- The white horse
- Snow
- Gleanings from snow country.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Tenohira no shōsetsu.
- ISBN:
- 0374530491
- 9780374530495
- OCLC:
- 82366142
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