Dandelions: Yasunari Kawabata (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Michael Emmerich (Translator), Michael Emmerich (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata (Author)

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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata
Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiance. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiance 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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The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata

Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiance. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiance 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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: 1
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 04 Apr 2019
ISBN 10: 0241367182
ISBN 13: 9780241367186
Book Overview: The exquisite last novella by Nobel Prizewinner Yasunari Kawabata.

Media Reviews

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 * Paris Review *
Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time -- New York Times Book Review
There are few other writers who could invoke such a lasting memory of a single image with so few words. * San Francisco Chronicle *
A literary habitat like no other?quietly devastating fiction. Behind a lyrical and understated surface, chaotic passions pulse * The Independent *

Author Bio

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.