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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories (FSG Classics) (1st Edition) by Yasunari Kawabata, Lane Dunlop (Translator), J. Martin Holman (Translator), Professor Lane Dunlop Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-374-53049-1 / 0374530491 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53049-5 / 9780374530495 Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories 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 w |