by Banana Yoshimoto
This is a collection of three short stories: Night and Night's Travelers, Love Songs and Asleep. These stories are unrelated but deal with rather odd relationships. My favorite of the three is Night and Night's Travelers. Our timeline constantly shifts from present to the past and from character ...
This book contains sad yet heart warming stories. I wasn't too sure about it when I first picked it up, however I loved each story, and I found myself wanting to read more of each, and of the author.
This book contains sad yet heart warming stories. I wasn't too sure about it when I first picked it up, however I loved each story, and I found myself wanting to read more of each, and of the author.
What can I say, Banana does it again! In three short stories, she manages to capture three women's stories in the entanglement of the simple act of sleeping, love, and of death:- a sleepwalker because of a death of lover- one haunted by the ghost/memory of a former lover's other girlfriend- one who ...
This book just didn't have the same appeal for me as "Kitchen" (one of Banana's former works) did. It felt loosely written and a bit disjointed, leaving you with a slighty unsatisfying feeling. In the second story the term "midget" is thrown around. Not in a negative way, but I view it as a negitive...
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