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Den här japanska kultklassikern från 1987 finner ständigt nya läsare världen över. Kitchen -- vilket är titeln även på japanska -- handlar om ett par frisinnade människor i det urbana Japan på 80-talet. Den föräldralösa Mikage har växt upp med sin...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Lucid, earnest and disarming.' New York Times 'A perfect jewel of a novel.' LENA DUNHAM 'The sensuality is extraordinarily powerful.' Chicago Tribune Kitchen comprises Banana Yoshimoto&ap...

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Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize 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 come...

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Den här japanska kultklassikern från 1987 finner ständigt nya läsare världen över. Kitchen -- vilket är titeln även på japanska -- handlar om ett par frisinnade människor i det urbana Japan på 80-talet. Den föräldralösa Mikage har växt upp med sin...

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Asleep tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay aw...

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From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan. 'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' Daily Mail 'Reading Banana Yoshimoto is ...

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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 life A New York Times Not...

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Handlingen följer Maria Shirakawa, en kvinna som åker till Tokyo för att studera vid universitetet. Maria lämnar Yamamoto-inn där hennes bästa vän Tsugumi bor. Tsugumi verkar vara ett otrevligt ungt flicka mot främlingar, men bara Maria känner til...

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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 the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses m...

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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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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN 'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' DAILY MAIL 'Exquisite.' MARIE CLAIRE 'A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.' DAILY TELEGRAPH &ap...

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'Poignant . . . deeply nostalgic.' GLAMOUR 'Strange, melancholy and beautiful.' BRANDON TAYLOR 'The supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATOR There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow ...

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It's a city with a mysterious magnetism, where things seem to be cocooned in a beautiful, illusive haze - Where everybody lives in a dream. These hauntingly beautiful stories explore the lives of six women who, in confronting formative or tra...

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"Entering Banana Yoshimoto's fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo--everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner. . . . Amrita is difficult to forget." --San Francisco Ch...

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"Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation's literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and wonderfully fresh." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Banana Yo...

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Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen. In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of thr...

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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 ...

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In this “witty, perceptive novel”, a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood (Elle).   Banana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an internatio...

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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 Bana...

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A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author of Lizard, Amrita, and Goodbye Tsugumi.   In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt d...

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This novel of a young Japanese girl grieving her father is ';an unlikely, engrossing Tokyo ghost story... You won't be able to take your mind off it' (Marie Claire). Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown wo...

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A poignant tragedy that is turned into a poignant coming-of-age ghost story, Yoshimoto pays a life-affirming homage to the healing powers of family, food and community.

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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 life First published in Japan in 2003 and...

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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 comes from knowing the truth Yayoi, a ninetee...

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Winner of the Tanizaki Prize in 2022, her latest short story collection from 2021, Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hon...

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At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesita...

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Die Zwillingsschwestern Mimi und Kodachi haben in Tokyo ein neues Leben begonnen, seit ihre Mutter in der Heimatstadt zwischen Bergen und Meer der Schlafkrankheit verfallen ist. Auf dem abgelegenen Ort lastet eine dunkle Sage. Eines Tages, als Kod...

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Im Zentrum des Romans stehen junge Menschen voller Lebenshunger und Sehnsucht nach Liebe. N.P. Kitchen

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Schlafsucht, Alkohol, geheimnisvolle Begegnungen - drei Geschichten von der Nacht und vom Wiedererwachen aus tiefem Schlaf, drei Geschichten über Frauen, deren Herzen und Seelen nicht zur Ruhe kommen. »Diese drei Geschichten sind sozusagen Geschwi...

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Wie der längst zum Kultbuch gewordene Roman Kitchen Amrita Wahl Amrita ist eine Odyssee durch die heftigsten Turbulenzen des Seelenlebens zu Selbstfindung und neuem Glück, und es ist vor allem eines: eine wunderschöne Hommage an das Leben. Es is...

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