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Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was fi...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut th...

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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 international sensation.Goodbye Ts...

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The acclaimed debut of Japan's ';master storyteller' (Chicago Tribune). With the publication ofKitchen,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto was a young writer of e...

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Banana Yoshimotos novels have established her as one of Japans finest and most popular writers, and an acclaimed and best-selling literary star all over the world. Now she delivers three novellas that develop her sophisticated, resonant, and artfu...

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A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author ofLizard, Amrita, andGoodbye Tsugumi. In cherished novels such asKitchenandGoodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese ha...

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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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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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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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Als Mikage ihre Großmutter verliert, ist sie vollkommen allein in der großen Wohnung. Nur in der Küche, wo sie das Brummen des Kühlschranks in den Schlaf wiegt, kommt sie zur Ruhe. Aus ihrer Einsamkeit holt sie Yuichi. Er schlägt ihr vor, zu ihm u...

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

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Wie verfallen sie ihrem Geliebten war, spürt Hotaru erst, als dieser nach acht Jahren die Beziehung plötzlich beendet. Hotaru steht vor dem Nichts. Erst in ihrer Heimatstadt, umgeben von Vertrauten und neuen Freunden, die alle einen besonderen Dra...

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Der rote Faden dieser poetischen Geschichten, die alle mit seelischen Umbrüchen und Grenzsituationen zu tun haben: Manche Gewissheiten kann nur der Körper vermitteln, und er tut es heilsam und hellsichtig.

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Yumikos Vergangenheit birgt ein Geheimnis, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Cousin Shôichi möchte sie den Schlüssel dazu finden. Ihre Nacht

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Zwei junge Menschen, die in der Großstadt Tokio zueinander- und dabei zu sich selbst finden. Eine Reise führt sie zunächst an einen geheimnisvollen See, wo all die Verletzungen wieder zu schmerzen beginnen, die ihnen das Leben scho...

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Die zwanzigjährige Yotchan steht vor dem Nichts, als ihr Vater, Leader einer Rockband, plötzlich zusammen mit einer wildfremden Frau Selbstmord begeht. Mit ihrer Mutter findet sie Zuflucht in einer ungewöhnlichen WG in Tokios Künstler- und Szenevi...

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Glücklich oder unglücklich verliebt, Schicksalsschläge, Lebenskrisen, die Suche nach dem eigenen Weg, Menschen, die auf Abwege geraten sind: Es gibt keine Garantie im Leben, dass man von schlimmen Erfahrungen verschont bleibt. Das beschreiben dies...

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Yumikos Vergangenheit birgt ein Geheimnis, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Cousin Shoichi mochte sie den Schlussel dazu finden. Ihre Nacht beschreibt eine unheimliche Grenzerfahrung und deren Bewltigung. Die Geschichte einer Heilung auch durch die Kraft d...

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