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Palm-of-the-hand stories
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- ISBN: 0374530491
- ISBN: 9780374530495
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 259 p. ; 19 cm. - Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Tenohira no shōsetsu. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Kawabata, Yasunari 1899-1972 Translations into English Japan Social life and customs Fiction |
Genre: | Short stories. |