Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories : Paperback : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc : 9780374530495 : 0374530491 : 14 Nov 2006 : 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...