Hardboiled & Hard Luck - Softcover

Yoshimoto, Banana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802142621 ISBN 13: 9780802142627

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled, the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on an anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of her ex-lover's death. As she nears her hotel--stopping on the way at a hillside shrine and a strange soba shop--a sense of haunting falls over her. Perhaps these eerie events will help her make peace with her loss. Hard Luck is about another young woman, whose sister is dying and lies in a coma. Kuni's fianc left her after the accident, but his brother Sakai continues to visit, and the two of them gradually grow closer as they make peace with the impending loss of their loved one. Yoshimoto's voice is clear, assured, and deeply moving, displaying again why she is one of Japan's, and the world's, most beloved writers.

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Review:

"'Sensitive, refined and graceful, Yoshimoto's writing is simple and clear.' i-D 'Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley's, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler's.' The New York Times"

About the Author:

Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of K itchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0802142621
• ISBN 13: 9780802142627
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160