{"product_id":"dandelions-9780811224093","title":"Dandelions","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKawabata, Yasunari:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Best known in the West for such novels as \u003cem\u003eSnow Country\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeauty and Sadness\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA Thousand Cranes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eYasunari Kawabata\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmmerich, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Emmerich\u003c\/strong\u003e is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California. He is the author of \u003cem\u003e\"The Tale of Genji\" Translation, Canonization, and World Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and the translator of numerous books from the Japanese.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645446164754,"sku":"9780811224093","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7c287e8-69bb-43ef-8c74-95f7c2957efa.jpg?v=1733153027","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dandelions-9780811224093","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}