Hardboiled / Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

Hardboiled / Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

Hardboiled opens as the narrator, a woman in her thirties, treks high above her secluded mountain hotel. As so often in Yoshimoto's supremely atmospheric stories, it is memory that forms the backdrop against which the present unfolds. In this case it is the memory of an old lover - the only woman she ever had intimate relations with - who died a year to the day previously. What unfolds is a night of intimation and blurred memory, disturbing signs and half-forgotten moments, as the narrator confronts the fears and the sense of loss that haunt her. In Hard Luck we find another female narrator, this one keeping vigil by the side of her sister who lies in a coma. Together with her father, and the brother of her sister's fiance, they appear almost trapped in a void, as they wait for the sister's death. Collectively the two stories brilliantly explore themes of love, loss and the ties that bind.

"'Sensitive, refined and graceful, Yoshimoto's writing is simple and clear' i-D"

Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her acclaimed stories, novels and essays have won numerous prizes both in Japan and abroad. She lives in Tokyo.

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ISBN 13	9780571227822
ISBN 10	0571227821
Title	Hardboiled / Hard Luck
Author	Banana Yoshimoto
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2005-07-21
Number of pages	160
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