Palm-Of-The-Hand Stories
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780865474123 (0865474125)
Publish date: May 16th 1990
Publisher: North Point Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Short Stories,
Nobel Prize,
Japanese Literature,
Short Story Collection
A very strange book. Two-thirds or more of these very tiny stories (like Haiku) were written between 1923 and 1935. Then 15 between 1944 and 1964, and one from 1972. We have heard of "occasional" writings; perhaps these need to be called "momentary" writings....A collection of this sort will likely ...