The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata
Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first it was a ping-pong ball, then it was her fiancé. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiancé walk along the riverbank after visiting time, they wonder: is her condition a form of madness - or an expression of love? Exploring the distance between us, and what we say without words, Kawabata's transcendent final novel is the last word from a master of Japanese literature.
'Lusciously peculiar' Paris Review
| ISBN: | 9780241367186 |
| Publication date: | 4th April 2019 |
| Author: | Yasunari Kawabata |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 132 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |