A review by edulaia
Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I do not know how to rate this book. The circumstances of how I read it, a few pages each night fighting sleep and in the mornings in the bus to work, fighting sleep, were not ideal for this very tightly written book that essentaly takes place over one afternoon and night and consists of one conversation. Had I read it less fragmentally, I am sure, I would have loved it. I have loved it, the texture of the writing is breathtaking. These Nobelprize winners, they do know how to write. Also, the storyis surprising, consistently following characters and ideas one would not have expected it to want to focus on.