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Biographical note
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1899 and before the Second World War had established himself as his country's leading novelist. Among his major works are Snow Country, A Thousand Cranes and The Master of Go. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he died in 1972.Yasunari Kawabata's lusciously peculiar novel Dandelions was unfinished when he took his life in 1972. It's a story of love and loss and mania, told in sparse, arresting prose
Paris Review
Kawabata's novels are among the most affecting and original works of our time
- New York Times Book Review,
There are few other writers who could invoke such a lasting memory of a single image with so few words.
San Francisco Chronicle
A literary habitat like no other?quietly devastating fiction. Behind a lyrical and understated surface, chaotic passions pulse
The Independent