Here is the third, revised and expanded edition of "Short Stories in the Palm of your Hand" by the famous Japanese writer, Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). Kawabata wrote this book of short stories all his life, adding new texts to it, changing their places, and sometimes throwing out of the book what seemed to him unsuitable for a new collection. Numerous publications differed from each other in composition, but were published under the same name — "Stories in the palm of your Hand". Kawabata said that this book is his favorite brainchild. The most subtle understanding of how a person born of Japanese culture works has found not only an international vocation. In Japan, the writer was awarded the title of "treasure man." Kawabata's masterpieces allowed the whole world to experience what it means to be born Japanese.