Author: Kawabata Yasunari
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Beauty and sadness
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Palm-of-the-hand stories
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First snow on Fuji
First published in 1958, this collection is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not-knowing, and with the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing.
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The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Twenty-three stories by a Japanese writer. The subjects include beggars, Buddhist priests and love dramas. The story, Diary of My Sixteenth Year, is on the friendship of a boy and his grandfather.