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'Tanpopo' ("The Dandelion") is a Japanese novel by Yasunari Kawabata, written in 1964, but published complete only posthumously in 1972. Kawabata had commenced serializing his final novel in the literary magazine 'Shincho', but after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1968 he ceased all publishing activity.Gian Carlo Calza 'Japan Style' 2007 In 1964 he had begun to publish what would be his last novel, The Dandelion (Tampopo), in instalments in the literary magazine 'Shincho'. When he was awarded the prize in October 1968 he stopped publishing and never started again....

A French translation with the title 'Les pissenlits' was published in 2012.Le Monde [http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2012/03/15/les-pissenlits-tanpopo-de-yasunari-kawabata_1669362_3260.html "Les Pissenlits (Tanpopo)", de Yasunari Kawabata: dialogue de la mre et de l'amant] Cet ultime livre de Kawabata est galement une mise en scne de la littrature. Inacheve ? Infinie. An English translation with an afterword by Michael Emmerich was published in 2017 by New Directions.Kawabata, 'Dandelions' (New York: New Directions, 2017)

The plot turns on the blindness of the girl Inako (), when making love to the boy Hisano () and the conversations leading to the decision of the girl's mother to protect him from the girl, lest she harm him when she is blind.Shichi Kat 'A History of Japanese Literature: The Modern Years' 1983 p243 "The fairy like young girl of the short novel Tanpopo (Dandelion, posthumous) suffers from a strange affliction that means that in the extremes of physical love she becomes incapable of seeing her partner."

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