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, mourning a lost...
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...
"Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation's literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and...
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"A beautiful translation... Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues,...
When charismatic and spoiled Tsugumi invites her cousin Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns...
A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases,...
Miki è stata trovata da neonata su un soffice letto di alghe in riva al mare, e da quel momento la sua vita è stata all’insegna dell’amore grazie agli Ōhira, la famiglia che l’ha adottata...
Tra sogni a occhi aperti e famiglie che si reinventano tra i fornelli, un romanzo sulla solitudine e sulla gioia di condividere. "Non c’è posto al mondo che io ami più della cucina...
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"Entering Banana Yoshimoto's fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo--everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner...
Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim. In "Hardboiled & Hard Luck, she delivers...
Cuando la jovencísima Mikage se queda sola a la muerte de su abuela, se refugia en la cocina de su vasta casa. Un día, sin embargo, unamable muchacho llama a su puerta y le propone...
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Kazami, una joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea al libro de cuentos, titulado N. P, del escritor Sarao Takase. Poco a poco el lector va sintiendo la fascinación...
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Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now...
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In these three novellas, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism,...
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"Yoshimoto's elegant, fey touch with such weighty themes as despair and fate, and] her urban images distilled and shimmering as haiku ... continue to make her a welcome and uniquely...
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