Products specifications
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Author
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Yasunari Kawabata |
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Pub Date
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04/04/2019 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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144 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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895.6344 |
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GBPPrice
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8.99 |
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Availability
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Available |
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 fiance. The doctors call it 'body blindness', and she is placed in a psychiatric clinic to recover. As Ineko's mother and fiance 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
