N.P

N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time a new translator takes up the task, death gets in the way.

N.P. is an extraordinarily powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it, confirming Banana Yoshimoto''s place as one of Japan''s most important writers.

''The voice of young Japan.'' Independent on Sunday

About the author

Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. She has published ten books in English translation and her work has been translated and published in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.

Summary

A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. "N.P." is the last collection of stories by a celebrated Japanese writer, written in English while she was living in Boston.

Product details

• Authors: Banana Yoshimoto
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2001
• EAN: 9780571212101
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21210-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 171 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Friendship; Japanese; Metafiction; Scandal