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The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto
Translated by Asa Yoneda

The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen.

£9.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571382316
Date Published
27.02.2025
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Summary

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN

‘Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.’ DAILY MAIL
‘Exquisite.’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Casts a delicate spell.’ SPECTATOR
‘Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.’ THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW

I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide . . . It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.

Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family – something ‘like you’d see in a Spielberg movie’. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she’s forgotten something important about her past.

Critic Reviews

Fans of Kitchen, will delight in Asa Yoneda's translation of The Premonition . . . Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.

The New York Times Book Review
Critic Reviews

Casts a delicate spell . . . In a creative landscape that is increasingly homogenised by an Anglo-American style, it's refreshing to pick up literature that has not lost its thisness. The world that blossoms from Yoshimoto's text is unequivocally Japanese.

Spectator
Critic Reviews

Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.

Daily Mail
Critic Reviews

Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.

Vanity Fair
Critic Reviews

A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.

Daily Telegraph
BananaYoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. She has published ten books in English translation and her work has been translated and published in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.

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