Product details
ISBN
9780571212842
Published
2003-02-03
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
125 gr
Height
179 mm
Width
112 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
192
Author
Translated by
Biographical note
Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction, including Kitchen, Asleep and, most recently, in English, The Premonition. Her work has been translated in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN
'The voice of young Japan.' INDEPENDENT
'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES
'[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATOR
An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.
Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university.
When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.
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Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a normal family.
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Her imagery has the delicacy and strength of a gossamer and she can make the commonplace seem mystical or surreal.
From the bestselling author of Kitchen: an elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.
Product details
ISBN
9780571212842
Published
2003-02-03
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
125 gr
Height
179 mm
Width
112 mm
Thickness
12 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
192
Author
Translated by