SOURCE: "A World Distilled: The Short Fiction of Japan's Nobel laureate," in Chicago Tribune—Books, August 21, 1988, p. 7.
In the laudatory review below, Seibold admires the polish and precision of the pieces in Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.
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