{"product_id":"9780811224109","title":"Dandelions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel \u003cem\u003eDandelions\u003c\/em\u003e is a great master’s last word\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA fascinating discovery, \u003cem\u003eDandelions\u003c\/em\u003e is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeautifully spare and deeply strange, \u003cem\u003eDandelions\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129181487344,"sku":"9780811224109","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224109_p0.jpg?v=1763741056","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}