N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

Bananamania has returned in an enchanting novel of uncanny subtlety, style, magic, and mystery that Frank Ramirez of the South Bend Tribune declares is every bit as good as Yoskimoto's first book.perhaps better.

A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, NP. But the book may never be published in his native Japan: Each translator who takes up the 98th 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 98th story--and she will come to believe that everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy.

Banana Yoshimoto wrote her first novel, Kitchen, while working as a waitress at a golf-course restaurant. It sold millions of copies worldwide, and led to a phenomenon dubbed by Western journalists as Banana-mania. Yoshimoto has gone on to be one of the biggest-selling and most distinguished writers in Japanese history, winning numerous awards for her work. The Lake is her thirteenth book of fiction.

Michael Emmerich has translated numerous books by Banana Yoshimoto, and is also known for his translations of Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata.

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ISBN 13	9780802115454
ISBN 10	0802115454
Title	N.P.
Author	Banana Yoshimoto
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove/Atlantic
Year published	1994-02-01
Number of pages	194
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