Books like The Dancing Girl of Izu
Stories from Kawabata's early career, among them a lonely Tokyo student who falls in with a family of travelling performers on the Izu peninsula and is drawn to their young dancer.
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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Seventy very short stories Kawabata wrote across his life, few longer than two pages, of chance meetings, love, death and the turning seasons.
Thousand Cranes
At a tea ceremony held by his late father's mistress, Kikuji is offered a bride, and begins an affair with another of his father's former lovers, Mrs Ota.
The Maid Silja
Silja, the last daughter of a ruined Finnish farming family, goes into service on farms and estates in the years around 1918, a young woman of quiet grace in hard times.
Selected Short Stories
Tagore's Bengali stories of the 1890s and after: a postmaster and the orphan girl who keeps house for him, a Kabuliwallah fruit-seller and a small girl, child brides and village clerks.
Sightseeing
Stories of Thai families and teenagers living on the edges of the tourist trade, in Bangkok and on the islands.
Cosima
Deledda's late novel of her own girlhood in Nuoro, Sardinia, where a girl from a strict, conventional household secretly writes stories and dreams of a life in literature.
People in the Summer Night
Over one summer night in the Finnish countryside, a birth, a death and a few chance meetings pass among the people of a village.
The Forest of Wool and Steel
Tomura, a quiet boy from a mountain village in Hokkaido, hears a piano tuner at work in his school gym and decides to become one, apprenticing himself to a small piano shop.
Pierre and Luce
In Paris in early 1918, under German shelling, Pierre, an eighteen-year-old about to be called up, meets Luce, a poor young artist, in the Métro during an air raid.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Eighteen stories by the father of the Japanese short story, among them a servant sheltering from the rain in a ruined city gate and conflicting testimony about a killing in a grove.
The Long Valley
Stories of the Salinas Valley, among them The Chrysanthemums, The Snake and Flight, and the four parts of The Red Pony.
Love in a Fallen City
Stories of love and money in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1940s; in the title novella, a divorced woman goes to Hong Kong to win a rich playboy, and the Japanese attack.