{"product_id":"dandelions","title":"Dandelions","description":"A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word\nA fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.\nBeautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions explores love and madness and consists almost entirely conversations between a woman identified only as Ineko's mother, and Kuno, a young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Clinic, a mental hospital, which she has entered for treatment of somagnosia, a condition that might be called “seizures of body blindness.” Although her vision as a whole is unaffected, she periodically becomes unable to see her lover Kuno. Whether this condition actually constitutes madness is a topic of heated discussion between Kuno and Ineko’s mother: Kuno believes Ineko's blindness is actually an expression of her love for him, as it is only he, the beloved, she cannot see.\nIn this tantalizing book, Kawabata explores the incommunicability of desire and carries the art of the novel, where he always suggested more than he stated, into mysterious and strange new realms. Dandelions is the final word of a truly great master, the first Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0811224090\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0811224090.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kawabata, Yasunari\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516537315386,"sku":"DBV.0811224090.G","price":10.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0811224090-0.jpg?v=1783741299","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/dandelions","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}