{"product_id":"9781564787491","title":"Flowers of Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003eOutside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bed-sheets. \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds as the narrator reads them, asking himself if Shiomi's death was a sort of suicide, and learning the details of his late friend's two great loves: for a brother and sister, both of whom reject him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFukunaga himself spent seven years recuperating from tuberculosis following World War II, and drew on his own experiences to create a fully realized portrait of a young man of fastidious intelligence and great sorrow, and how it is possible, seeing reality from the side of death and despair, to still choose life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157151170800,"sku":"9781564787491","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564787491_p0.jpg?v=1763770755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564787491","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}