The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari KawabataInekohas 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 isplaced in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiancéwalk along the riverbank after visiting time,they wonder: is hercondition a form of madness - or an expression of love Exploring thedistance between us,and what we say without words,Kawabata'stranscendent final novel is the last word from a master of Japaneseliterature.'Lusciously peculiar'Paris Review
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241367186Number of pages: 144Weight: 113 gDimensions: 197 x 129 x 10 mm
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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 proseKawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our timeThere are few other writers who could invoke such a lasting memory of a single image with so few words.A literary habitat like no otherquietly devastating fiction. Behind a lyrical and understated surface,chaotic passions pulse
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