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Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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, redemption and recovery, and a confrontation with spirits on a remote Pacific island.
Dead-End Memories Stories by BANANA YOSHIMOTO
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 lifeFirst published in Japan in 2003 and never-before-published in the United States, Dead-End Mem ...Show more
Goodbye Tsugumi by Yoshimoto Banana
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Banana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside ...Show more
Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
$16.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim. In "Hardboiled & Hard Luck, she delivers two tales of resonant grace, of young women coming to terms with change and heartbreak. In "Hardboiled." the narrator is hiking ...Show more
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most ...Show more
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
$30.75 AUD
Category: Fiction
Yoshimoto s elegant, fey touch with such weighty themes as despair and fate, [and] her urban images distilled and shimmering as haiku . . . continue to make her a welcome and uniquely assured voice. "Paper" magazine Banana Yoshimoto s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese ...Show more
Moshi-Moshi: A Novel by Banana Yoshimoto
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 pa ...Show more