Banana Yoshimoto
1) Moshi Moshi
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Language
English
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"In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimokitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left...
2) Kitchen
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Language
English
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The acclaimed debut of Japan’s “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an...
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled, the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on an anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of her ex-lover's death....
4) Lizard
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Six short stories by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes. In Blood and Water, a woman abandons the religious commune where she was raised, goes to the big city and finds another idol of worship, a charismatic lover. The story looks at the connection between spiritual and romantic fervor. By the author of Kitchen.
5) Asleep
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a woman she was once pitted against in a love triangle.
6) N.P: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
The lives of people in both straight and lesbian relationships, all with connections to a book entitled NP. They include the author's children and the translator's mistress. Written by one of Japan's leading pop writers.
7) Amrita
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A Japanese woman's struggle to regain her memory. She is Saku-chan, a barmaid who suffered a head injury in a fall. She meets her dead sister's lover and the two have an affair which helps her recover. By the author of Lizard.
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 821
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 836
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
中文
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 831
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 830
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
中文
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 816
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文