Dandelions - Yasunari Kawabata

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 fianc. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is
placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fianc
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.

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