Amrita

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiancé who is writing a novel with uncanny parallels to his own story. ''Her novels can have the effect of addictive drugs . . . Pathos, nostalgia, the sense of exquisite sadness at the fleetingness of life are key elements of beauty in Japanese aesthetics, and all are themes central to Yoshimoto''s books.'' The Times Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto: 'Pathos, nostalgia, the sense of exquisite sadness at the fleetingness of life are key elements of beauty in Japanese aesthetics, and all are themes central to Yoshimoto's books.' ( The Times ) Zusammenfassung A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds;

Product details

• Authors: Banana Yoshimoto
• Assisted by: Russell F. Wasden (Translation), Russell F. (Translator) Wasden (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2001
• EAN: 9780571193745
• ISBN: 978-0-571-19374-5
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 205 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Japan, Bereavement; Ghosts; Japanese; Translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary