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"Bananamania" has returned in an enchanting new novel of uncanny sulbtlety, style, magic, and mystery that Frank Ramirez of the <i>South Bend Tribune</i> declares is "every bit as good as Yoskimoto's first book ... perhaps better."<p>A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, <i>N.P.</i> But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too -- including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story -- and she will come to believe that "everytking that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy."</p><p></p>
Compra de libros
N.P., Ann Sherif, Banana Yoshimoto
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1994
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
Métodos de pago
Nadie lo ha calificado todavía.
- Título
- N.P.
- Subtítulo
- a novel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Ann Sherif, Banana Yoshimoto
- Editorial
- GROVE PR
- Publicado en
- 1994
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 194
- ISBN10
- 0802115454
- ISBN13
- 9780802115454
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Ficción contemporánea, Japón, Asia, Literatura japonesa, Ficción asiática, Japonés
- Descripción
- "Bananamania" has returned in an enchanting new novel of uncanny sulbtlety, style, magic, and mystery that Frank Ramirez of the <i>South Bend Tribune</i> declares is "every bit as good as Yoskimoto's first book ... perhaps better."<p>A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, <i>N.P.</i> But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too -- including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story -- and she will come to believe that "everytking that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy."</p><p></p>