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Asian-Literature

1971

Taipei People

fiction

taiwan

short-stories

chinese

Pai Hsien-yung - 1971

Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce's Dubliners.

Patrick Hanan praises the volume as -the highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story.- Henry Miller considers Pai Hsien-yung -a master of portraiture.- Stories from this collection have already been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean.

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Yasunari Kawabata - 1971

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.

Best ofAsian-Literature

1971

Taipei People

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Best of
Asian-Literature