A review by aqilahreads
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata

2.0

this book centres around ineko whom suffers from a strange & rare ailment "somagnosia" or "body blindness". even though ineko is largely absent from the story, it follows a wide-ranging conversation between ineko's mother and ineko's fiance, kuno, as they wrestle with ineko's illness and its causes.

beautiful writing but somehow felt incomplete/lost in translation. there were so many conversations happening between ineko's mother and kuno - that keeps going to & fro with no solid conclusion. that explains when i got to find out much later after reading this that dandelions was yasunari kawabata's last and unfinished novel. and thats where i also found out with the news that the author died by suicide. rest in peace