5/14/2023 0 Comments Banana yoshimoto book![]() ![]() ![]() In the story of the title, the narrator Mikage has lost her last remaining relative, a beloved grandmother with whom she lived. The source of what has been described as ``Bananamania'' in her native Japan, Yoshimoto combines traditional sensitivity to nuance and setting with a youthful sense of belonging to a wider, less specifically Japanese world-characters jog, eat Kentucky Fried chicken, and listen to American music: a combination that, apparently, made this novel-in reality two separate stories united by a theme of loss and survival-an instant success among younger Japanese. by Helen Mitsios)-explores love and loss with a distinctly contemporary sensibility. ![]() Young writer Yoshimoto's first full-length fiction to appear in the US-an excerpt of which appeared in New Japanese Voices (1991 ed. ![]()
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