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Banana Yoshimoto

Autor/a de Kitchen

110+ obres 13,757 Membres 345 Ressenyes 73 preferits

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Banana Yoshimoto, 1964 - Novelist Banana Yoshimoto was born Mahoko Yoshimoto on July 24, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. She is the daughter of poet and commentator Yoshimoto Ryumei, who had an impact on the radical student movement of the late 1960's. She attended Tokyo's Nihon University, where she studied mostra'n més creative writing and won a faculty award for her 1987 graduation novel "Moonlight Shadow." While working as a waitress, she took moments out of her day to write a novel and, at the age of 24, the result was "Kitchen" (1988), which is the story of a lonely woman who moves her bed into the kitchen, finding comfort in the humming of the refrigerator. She also wrote "Pineapple Pudding" and "Fruit Basket," which were both bestsellers. Her novel "Lizard" was dedicated to the memory of the late rocker Kurt Cobain and the novel "Long Night of Marika/Bali Dream Diary" (1996) was considered a flop. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Banana Yoshimoto

Kitchen (1988) 4,804 exemplars
NP (1990) 1,344 exemplars
Asleep (1989) 1,256 exemplars
Goodbye Tsugumi (2002) 1,204 exemplars
Lizard (1995) 1,096 exemplars
Amrita (1994) 990 exemplars
Hardboiled and Hard Luck (2001) 646 exemplars
The Lake (2005) 521 exemplars
Moshi Moshi (2010) 234 exemplars
Sly (1996) 129 exemplars
L'abito di piume (2005) 116 exemplars
Presagio triste (1988) 109 exemplars
Dead-End Memories: Stories (2022) 109 exemplars
Il corpo sa tutto (2002) 100 exemplars
L'ultima amante di Hachiko (1998) 97 exemplars
Honeymoon (1997) 95 exemplars
The Premonition: A Novel (2023) 88 exemplars
Arcobaleno (2003) 79 exemplars
Ricordi di un vicolo cieco (2003) 76 exemplars
Il coperchio del mare (2007) 72 exemplars
La piccola ombra (2001) 61 exemplars
Delfini (2006) 48 exemplars
Un viaggio chiamato vita (2006) 43 exemplars
High & Dry. Primo amore (2004) 38 exemplars
A proposito di lei (2002) 28 exemplars
Argentine Hag (2002) 23 exemplars
Moonlight Shadow (1986) 20 exemplars
Lebensgeister (2011) 18 exemplars
Andromeda Heights (2014) 15 exemplars
アムリタ〈上〉 (1994) 12 exemplars
アムリタ〈下〉 (1994) 12 exemplars
Il dolce domani (2020) 11 exemplars
Le sorelle Donguri (2010) 11 exemplars
Le strane storie di Fukiage (2022) 10 exemplars
Su un letto di fiori (2021) 9 exemplars
Another world: il Regno 4 (2017) 7 exemplars
ひな菊の人生 (2000) 6 exemplars
La casa dei fantasmi (2014) 4 exemplars
パイナップリン (1992) 4 exemplars
Banana Yoshimoto 4 exemplars
パイナップルヘッド (1995) 4 exemplars
Newlywed (2005) 4 exemplars
Kuhinja (Serbian Edition) (2015) 3 exemplars
哀しい予感 (1988) 2 exemplars
Viaggiatori nella notte (2013) 2 exemplars
La voce del cuore 2 exemplars
Moshi Moshi (2017) 2 exemplars
HH 1 exemplars
Anna Thalbach liest Yoshimoto (2006) 1 exemplars
Fruits basket : 対談集 (1990) 1 exemplars
האגם (2013) 1 exemplars
夢について (1994) 1 exemplars
すばらしい日々 (2013) 1 exemplars
中吊り小説 (新潮文庫) (1994) 1 exemplars
Hard Luck 1 exemplars
どんぐり姉妹 (2010) 1 exemplars
B Kyū Banana 1 exemplars
Hồ 1 exemplars
Vĩnh biệt Tugumi 1 exemplars
Thằn Lằn 1 exemplars
Say ngủ 1 exemplars
Sueño profundo 1 exemplars
1994 1 exemplars
ひとかげ (2006) 1 exemplars
Un sogno gentile 1 exemplars
Ein seltsamer Ort 1 exemplars
まぼろしハワイ (2007) 1 exemplars
イルカ (文春文庫) (2008) 1 exemplars
Eldhús 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018) — Col·laborador — 352 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (1997) — Col·laborador — 226 exemplars
The Penguin Book of International Women's Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 113 exemplars
The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) (2015) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan (1991) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars

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A trifle forgettable but nonetheless readable, Yoshimoto's two novellas are musings on the living dealing with death and the supernatural . The stories are not morbid however, they are light and thoughtful and a nice vehicle to entertaining ideas that are slightly far-fetched and otherworldly. I have also read Kitchen by Yoshimoto and even though I don't think Banana is the greatest novelist, I like her innocent and airy style and have enjoyed her offerings thus far!
 
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Dzaowan | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Feb 15, 2024 |
It took me a while to get into this one, for whatever reason, but once I did I was completely immersed. Like many of Yoshimoto’s novels, this is about rebuilding your life after a loss. About mourning, and grief, and all that changes about your life and what you thought it would be. This one in particular is about Yocchan, who is living with her mother after losing her father (and her mother losing her husband) to a murder-suicide with his mistress. So there is a lot going on! The loss of a parent or spouse, the secret affair and what that meant to your relationship. Her mother redefining herself outside of the marriage.

And it’s Yoshimoto, so it is all soft, melancholy, almost underwater in a way. These aren’t characters who act out in big noisy ways. Things change, if slowly, until they realize they have ended up somewhere they never imagined.

The afterword about Yoshimoto losing her own father (after writing this book, but before it was through the publication process) makes it even more bitter sweet.

Yoshimoto talks about people criticizing her writing for being unrealistic, but I think this is just the sort of novel I would want to read after a major loss.

This book is also a love song to a neighborhood, the kind with lots of independent little restaurants and shops, where the people who work there also live there, that has its own distinct character even in the middle of a giant city.

A lovely read to start off the year!
… (més)
 
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greeniezona | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Feb 4, 2024 |
Finalmente mi sono decisa a leggere un altro romanzo di Yoshimoto, dopo l’enorme delusione di Moshi moshi: che sfiga, ai tempi, aver sfilato dallo scaffale della biblioteca quello che è uno dei suoi libri peggiori. Magari adesso non aspetterò dieci anni prima di leggere Kitchen.

Il dolce domani non è uno di quei romanzi inequivocabilmente belli, ma è uno di quei libri che mi sento di consigliare perché capace di fare bene all’anima. Avendo come il tema il lutto, potrebbe essere particolarmente indicato per affrontare quel genere di dolore, ma è così delicato e garbato che credo possa essere una lettura lenitiva in senso lato.

Infatti, Yoshimoto dichiara nella postfazione al romanzo di averlo scritto in seguito al terremoto del Tōhoku dell’11 marzo 2011, che, tra morti accertate e persone disperse, ha fatto più di 20.000 vittime. Il dolce domani non parla di quella catastrofe, ma vuole comunque essere un abbraccio affettuoso a chiunque sia rimastǝ dopo un evento luttuoso. E, secondo me, riesce molto bene a trasmettere quel calore umano.
… (més)
 
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lasiepedimore | Jan 17, 2024 |
"È così semplice, in fondo, l'uomo: non è solo di cibo che si nutre ogni giorno. Si nutre anche di atmosfere, di pensieri, di mille altre cose che gli assomigliano."

Non potevo iniziare l'anno con lettura più azzeccata.
 
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Anshin | Jan 17, 2024 |

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Obres
110
També de
7
Membres
13,757
Popularitat
#1,685
Valoració
½ 3.6
Ressenyes
345
ISBN
431
Llengües
26
Preferit
73

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