Dandelions

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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataIneko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it ‘body blindness’, and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko’s mother and fiancé walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness – or an expression of love? Exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, Kawabata’s transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of Japanese literature. ‘Lusciously peculiar’ Paris Review

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Weight 0.113 kg
Dimensions 0.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

144

Publisher

Year Published

2019-4-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0241367182

About The Author

Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.

Yasunari Kawabata's lusciously peculiar novel Dandelions was unfinished when he took his life in 1972. It's a story of love and loss and mania, told in sparse, arresting prose

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Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time

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