Books by Banana Yoshimoto (5)
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Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto EN
JapanDescription:
"An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye, Tsugumi is an enchanting novel"
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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto EN
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Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto ES
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El libro está dividido en tres partes; las dos primeras parecen formar parte de la novela corta, del título del libro. La tercera es el cuento Moonlight shadow.
La novela presenta el encuentro de dos personajes (y un tercero siempre presente); ninguno es una persona "típica". El encuentro inicia una serie de hechos, que giran en torno al destino ya definido (con una sombra de muerte) y la riesgosa aventura de tomar decisiones. Muy buena.
El cuento Moonlight shadow, se basa en la canción del Mike Oldfield, y la eleva al nivel de arte. A partir del arte de... continue
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A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. N.P. is the last collection of stories by a celebrated Japanese writer, written in English while she was living in Boston.
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In N.P., Banana Yoshimoto's enchanting novel of uncanny subtlety, style, magic, and mystery, a celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English. But the book, itself titled N.P., may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too-including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the ... continue