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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.
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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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