Wild chicory

The last novel of Kawabata that he left unfinished at his suicide in April 1972. An amazing discovery! A novel about love and madness with graceful beauty and extreme strangeness. Inko in Ikota Mental Hospital where her mother and her lover Kono left her for treatment from "blindness". The condition may be called "attacks of body blindness", as she becomes unable to see her lover's body, even though her eyesight is not generally affected.