Dandelions

A fascinating discovery, Kawabata’s unfinished final novel Dandelions is a great master’s last word

A fascinating discovery, Dandelions is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in 1972.

Beautifully 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 menta...