Name: The Premonition
Price: 34.76 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN: 9780571382309

Type

Physical Book

Author

Banana Yoshimoto

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21 x 13 cm

ISBN13

9780571382309

The Premonition

Banana Yoshimoto (Author) · Faber and Faber · Paperback

New Book Imported to Netherlands

Delivery: 01 Sep - 10 Sep

€ 34,76

Import costs and 9% BTW included in the price ✅

€ 34,76

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "The Premonition"

The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen.

'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' - Vanity Fair

The new novel from the bestselling author of the beloved classic, Kitchen.

I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a distant tide. It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.

Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past. Deciding to take a break, she goes to stay with her mysterious but beloved aunt Yukino, whose strange behaviour includes waking Yayoi at two in the morning to be her drinking companion, watching Friday the 13th repeatedly and throwing away all the things she wants to forget. Living a life without order, Yukino seems to be protecting herself, but beneath this facade Yayoi starts to recover lost memories, and everything she knows about her past threatens to change forever.

Banana Yoshimoto

(Author)

View Author's Page

Banana Yoshimoto (Tokyo, 1964) studied literature at Nihon University. With Kitchen, her first novel, she won the Newcomer Writers Prize in 1987, while she was still a university student, and a year later she was awarded the Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize for the same work. Among other awards, she has received the prestigious Scanno Award in Italy. Yoshimoto is already the author of an extensive but exquisite body of work consisting of essays, novels like N.P., Amrita, and Tsugumi, and storybooks such as Deep Sleep, Memories of a Dead-End Street, and Lizard. Since 1991, the year Tusquets Editores published Kitchen, Yoshimoto has become, along with Haruki Murakami, one of the most prestigious voices in contemporary Japanese literature.

See less