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.

Yasunari Kawabata; Translated from the Japanese by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman