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28 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Washington Square Press, 1998

You're beautiful Sakumi!
After I read Banana Yoshimoto's first novella Kitchen during the summer of 2001, I picked up each of her then available works in translation and devoured them voraciously. Unfortunately not one of her other novels, short stories, and novellas ever had that same gentle, dreamlike impact of Kitchen. I am not saying that I did not enjoy these other works, but as a whole they could never draw me into ...

Hardboiled and Hard Luck

5 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Grove Press, 2006

Bananamania continues
I can only say that these two stories are up to par with Banana's older books like Kitchen. Just read it.

Kitchen

1 review
Banana Yoshimoto

Faber and Faber, 2001

Poetry is created in the kitchen
I just finished this book and it was wonderful. I read it in about 3 days. I loved the poetry in the prose of this book. Not so much descrtiptions of the places but the descriptions of the heart and the emotions of these mainly two chartacters were feeling. It was refreshing that there was no sexually discussions but just honest and gut-wrenching emotions shared by these two characters. However ...

Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby supermarket

4 reviews
Stephan Trescher, Banana Yoshimoto, ...

Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2005

high quality catalog raisonne of a very young artist
This artist is under 40 years old, yet this is an excellent catalog of his work to date. Great print quality, great color and reproductions and paper. It's not a popular press, commercial purpose book, but an academic, museum type book, hence the high quality. I've never seen his original work live and in person, but this catalog is very satisfying, perhaps because his flat art is so ...

31 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Washington Square Press, 1995

Shockingly beautiful
The second in the English translations of Banana Yoshimoto's novels into English is N.P. The story circles around a young woman named Kazami and a book of stories by darkly eccentric writer Sarao Takase. Takase committed suicide after finishing the book and since, translators attempting to finish a Japanese version have shared the same fate. One of these translators was Kazami's boyfriend during ...

Kitchen

109 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Washington Square Press, 1994

Solid 4 Star Read
Yosimoto's first book is part romance, part coming of age story, written in an easy style that draws in the reader. It felt real, believable, and had characters that I cared about, that I could be friends with, that I could expect to meet going about my daily life. The story follows Mikage after the death of her grandmother, coming to grips with the death of her only family and her emptiness. ...

Lizard

21 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Washington Square Press, 1996

Subtle Interesting Japanese Literature
This understated group of short stories captures young angst in modern Japan. The stories dig into characters attempting to overcome painful pasts, and how the past pain impacts current relationships. Infidelity and uncertainty are treated as part of the learning process. Yamamoto puts on an androgynous author's voice, switching between male and female first person accounts. The reserved ...

Kitchen (A Black cat book)

5 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Grove Press, 2006

Twin Souls
When my friend Mini sent me this gift, I wanted to immediately loose myself in the pages. I kept thinking it was truly a book I would want to read all in one sitting. I wanted to curl up on a couch and have my two cats sleeping at my feet and how right I was! Once I started reading, (my husband sound asleep, cats sleeping at my feet, and the house deathly quiet except for the quiet humming of ...

Goodbye Tsugumi

22 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Grove Press, 2003

BANANA'S BEST BOOK
ALL OF BANANA YOSHIMOTO'S BOOK HAVE THE SAME 3 THEMES. SLEEP: DEATH: PEOPLE LIVING A WHILE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY INCLUDING A COUSIN. ALL OF HER BOOKS ARE EXCELLENT OR GOOD. THIS IS BANANA YOSHIMOTO'S BEST BOOK.

Dornröschenschlaf. Drei Erzählungen von der Nacht.
Banana Yoshimoto

Diogenes Verlag, 2001

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Banana Yoshimoto

Diogenes Verlag AG, 2005

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Banana Yoshimoto

TusQuets, 1999

Tsugumi
Banana Yoshimoto

Tusquets, 2008

Maria Shirakawa, la narradora de esta delicada historia, tiene que marcharse a Tokio, en cuya universidad va a estudiar. Deja atrÃ¡s el hostal Yamamoto, un lugar idÃlico frente al mar en la penÃnsula de Izu, donde ha crecido junto a su madre. Y tambiÃ©n a su amiga de la infancia, Tsugumi, la bellÃsma hija del matrimonio que regenta el hostal. Con esta novela sobre el dolor, la amistad y el primer amor, Yoshimoto regresa al mundo que creÃ³ en ...

Sueno Profundo
Banana Yoshimoto

TusQuets, 2006

Asleep

23 reviews
Banana Yoshimoto

Grove Pr, 2000

Very Unique Writer
How could a book about sleep be so interesting? Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto, is one of the best books I have ever read. Her writing style is a marvel. Reading Asleep was an experience the like of which I never before had. I plan to purchase this and every one of her other books, something I have never done before with any writer. Asleep contains three novellas all dealing not only with sleep ...

N.P.
Banana Yoshimoto

Faber and Faber, 2001

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