A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye, Tsugumiis an enchanting novel. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
"Hardboiled" opens as the narrator treks high above her secluded mountain hotel on the anniversary of her lover's death. "Hard Luck" opens with another female narrator, this time at the bedside of her sister, who lies in a coma. Exploring the ghosts of love, memory, and intimate secrets, these are two haunting and atmospheric tales from Japan's leading female writer. Format:Paperback
Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN:9780571227846
Hardboiled opens as the narrator treks high above her secluded mountain hotel on the anniversary of her lover's death. Hard Luck opens with another female narrator...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
In these six stories Yoshimoto masterfully explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. Her characters find themselves caught in emotional webs that they often fail to understand...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208