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Summary
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.
Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life’s most brutal moments’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I’ve ever read’
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Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction, including Kitchen, Goodbye Tsugumi and The Premonition. Her work has been translated in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.
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