Palm-of-the-Hand Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palm-of-the-Hand Stories write by Yasunari Kawabata. This book was released on 2006-11-14. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of short stories written over the entire span of Kawabata's career. These stories, he felt, represented the essence of his art and reflect his abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. --Adapted from publisher description.
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand write by Pha-boṅ-kha-pa Byams-pa-bstan-ʼdzin-ʼphrin-las-rgya-mtsho. This book was released on 2006-11-03. Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pabongka Rinpoche was one the twentieth century's most charismatic and revered Tibetan lamas, and in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand we can see why. In this famous twenty-four-day teaching on the lamrim, or stages of the path, Pabongka Rinpoche weaves together lively stories and quotations with frank observations and practical advice to move readers step by step along the journey to buddhahood. When his student Trijang Rinpoche first edited and published these teachings in Tibetan, an instant classic was born. The flavor and immediacy of the original Tibetan are preserved in Michael Richards' fluid and lively translation, which is now substantially revised in this new edition.
Floating in My Mother's Palm
Floating in My Mother's Palm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Floating in My Mother's Palm write by Ursula Hegi. This book was released on 2011-01-25. Floating in My Mother's Palm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.
First Snow on Fuji
First Snow on Fuji - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Snow on Fuji write by Yasunari Kawabata. This book was released on 2000-10-12. First Snow on Fuji available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and loss of memory, with not–knowing. Kawabata lets us slide into the lives of people who have been shattered by war, loss, and longing. These stories are beautiful and melancholy, filled with Kawabata's unerring vision of human psychology. First Snow on Fuji was originally published in Japan in 1958, ten years before Kawabata received the Nobel Prize. Kawabata selected the stories for this collection himself, and the result is a stunning assembly of disparate moods and genres. This new edition is the first to be published in English.
Palm-of-the-hand Stories
Palm-of-the-hand Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palm-of-the-hand Stories write by Yasunari Kawabata. This book was released on 1990. Palm-of-the-hand Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 course of 50 years, here sensitively translated are 70 of them, most written in Kawabata's youth and usually no more than a page or two in length, though the last one, "Gleanings from Snow Country," is somewhat longer and was written just before Kawabata's suicide in 1972; it is a miniaturization of the highly praised novel of the same name. The tales are variously realistic, allegorical and fantastic; and, as in the novels, the principal themes are love, loneliness, social change, man's relation with nature and death. Each story exhibits some sharp and often subtle perception of life (in Kawabata's world, stillness can "resound" and men listening to a woman's laugh can experience "a strange kind of aural jealousy"); and each, like a haiku or classic Zen painting, suggests far more than it states.
