Banana Yoshimoto
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino. No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle's bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In "House of Ghosts," the daughter of a yoshoku...
3) Kitchen
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that 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 enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young...
4) Kitchen
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores S.A
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La novela con la que se dio a conocer Banana Yoshimoto, una de las voces más prestigiosas de la literatura japonesa actual.
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, un amable muchacho llama a su puerta y le propone que vaya a vivir con él y con su madre, Eriko. Sin embargo, esta hermosa y acogedora mujer no es quien parece ser. Una fábula en la que la soledad...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Having grown up by the sea with her invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters university life and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family.
7) N.P
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.
8) 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.
10) Moshi Moshi
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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 Shimo-kitazawa, 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...
11) Amrita
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
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.
12) Lizard
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
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.