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.
Hardboiled 5*"just what i need right now" was the thought that crossed my mind when I picked up that little book. And I was right about that. The story eased my mind. I found it easy to relate to the story either because I like to be in the nature or because I like japanese ghost stories. I really e...
Ms. Lizzie D’souza used to make the most decadent marzipan Easter eggs a palate has ever savored. Nestled oh so cozily among the delicate weaves of satin cradles, unwearyingly waiting for enthusiastic strangers through the glass casement, somehow brought ephemeral magic to the quaint bakery down the...
Is it just me, or is Banana Yoshimoto the cutest name you can imagine? Confession: While I profess to love all things Japanese, I have a very limited knowledge of Japanese books. The most I've read by Japanese authors is by Haruki Murakami and Yasunari Kawabata, as well as several anthologies of hai...
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 ...
It's interesting to peer into another culture sometimes and try to dissect it to find what makes it the way it is. This is the first book I've read by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto. Her attention to the subtleties of the personal interactions between her characters is definitely fodder for such d...
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