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; 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