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    Dead-End Memories

    Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

    From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen - five effortlessly beautiful, strange and melancholy stories of heartbreak, hope and trying to see beauty in the everyday

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    The Premonition

    Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

    The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen.

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    Goodbye Tsugumi

    Banana Yoshimoto

    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…

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    Hardboiled & Hard Luck

    Banana Yoshimoto

    Banana Youshimoto’s depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country’s literature and earned international acclaim. In her latest work, she delivers two tales of resonant grace, of…

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    Asleep

    Banana Yoshimoto

    Banana 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. Another…

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    Kitchen

    Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (trans.)

    A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.

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    The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction

    Banana Yoshimoto,Shuichi Yoshida,Nao-Cola Yamazaki,Hiromi Kawakami

    A unique anthology of ten stories set in the dazzling metropolis of contemporary Tokyo.

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    Mittens and Pity

    Banana Yoshimoto

    From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen - six new ethereal, heartwarming stories of grief, time and memory.

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    The Premonition

    Banana Yoshimoto

    The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably…

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    Amrita

    Banana Yoshimoto

    A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes…

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    Mittens and Pity

    Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda

    Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hong Kong, and Hachijo-jima, the six stories collected here depict people who are struggling with recent loss and coming to terms with the truth…

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    N.P.

    Banana Yoshimoto

    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…

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    Kitchen

    Banana Yoshimoto

    A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.

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    Dead-End Memories

    Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)

    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…

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    Moshi Moshi: A Novel

    Banana Yoshimoto,Asa Yoneda

    A surreal and deeply human novel about recovery and rebuilding life after a mysterious death, from an internationally acclaimed Japanese literary sensation

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    Dead-End Memories

    Banana Yoshimoto

    Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday…

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    N.P.

    Banana Yoshimoto

    N.P. is essential reading, a stunningly simple tale of youthful desires and obsessions.

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    Amrita

    Banana Yoshimoto

    An actress dies in shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional extended family of three who embark on a journey through grief and suffering, memories lost and gained, forbidden romance…

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    Asleep

    Banana Yoshimoto

    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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    The Premonition

    Banana Yoshimoto

    Originally published in Japan by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.

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    Living the Somehow Life-Tanaka Yasuo, Banana Yoshimoto and Postmodern Japan

    Peter Tillack

    Tanaka Yasuo’s Nantonaku, kurisutaru (Somehow, Crystal, 1980) and Yoshimoto Banana’s Kitchin (Kitchen, 1987) have been denigrated as em-ble-matic of a so-called bastardized line of Japanese literature, characterized by an un-abashed…

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    Him Her That

    Wisut Ponnimit

    The English manga book you simply have to buy

    –Time Out Tokyo Magazine

    It’s as if magic coats the pages

    –Novelist Banana Yoshimoto

    Fans of alternative, independent manga ought to…

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    Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

    Fuminobu Murakami

    Murakami analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin.

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    Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture: A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

    Fuminobu Murakami,Murakami Fuminobu,Fuminobu Murakami (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

    Murakami analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin.

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    Yoshimoto Banana und die gesellschaftliche Situation junger Frauen

    Irina Kriger

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Japanologie, Note: 2,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als eine der beruhmtesten japanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart hat Yoshimoto…

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