One Arm
1964
First Published
3.41
Average Rating
246
Number of Pages
A young woman removes her right arm and gives it to the a man (the protagonist) to keep for the night. The story follows his thoughts and actions as he takes it home to keep for the night. He talks and caresses it, and then decides to replace his own arm with it. The "relationship" the man has with the detached arm serves as a portal into the landscape of memory and emotions.
Avg Rating
3.41
Number of Ratings
331
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
40%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
4%
goodreads
Author
Yasunari Kawabata
Author · 30 books
Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read today. Nobel Lecture: 1968 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel\_prize...
