Банана Ёсимото — новинки

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth

Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost as though asleep. When she is not working, Yukino spends all day in her pajamas, clipping her nails and trimming her split ends. She eats only when she feels like it, and she often falls asleep lying on her side in the hallway. She sometimes wakes Yayoi at 2:00 a.m to be her drinking companion, sometimes serves flan in a huge mixing bowl for dinner, and watches Friday the 13th over and over to comfort herself. A child study desk, old stuffed animals--things Yukino wants to forget--are piled up in her backyard like a graveyard of her memories.

An instant bestseller in Japan when first published in 1988, The Premonition is finally available in English, translated by the celebrated Asa Yoneda.

First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery.

Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle’s bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In “House of Ghosts,” the daughter of a yoshoku restaurant owner encounters the ghosts of a sweet elderly couple who haven’t yet realized that they’ve been dead for years. In “Tomo-chan’s Happiness,” an office worker who is a victim of sexual assault finally catches sight of the hope of romance.

Yoshimoto’s gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simple as having someone to share a meal with, and that happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to pause and reflect. Discover this collection of what Yoshimoto herself calls the “most precious work of my writing career.”

Nach einem schweren Unfall und dem Verlust ihres Geliebten ist Sayoko nicht mehr sie selbst. Sie hat das Zwischenreich der Geister betreten und Geheimnisse der unsichtbaren Welt erfahren. In der Tempelstadt Kyoto lernt sie allmählich das Leben so zu akzeptieren, wie es ist: voller Ungewissheiten und Rätsel, dem Tod immer nahe, ob man jung ist oder alt. Aber sie begreift auch, wie einmalig und geheimnisvoll das Diesseits ist.

In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimokitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying—unsuccessfully—to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message to her through these dreams?
With the lightness of touch and surreal detachment that are the hallmarks of her writing, Banana Yoshimoto turns a potential tragedy into a poignant coming-of-age ghost story and a life-affirming homage to the healing powers of community, food, and family.

Cosa turba la serenità della diciannovenne Yayoi? Della sua vita idilliaca in seno a una "famiglia felice della classe media che sembra uscita da un film di Spielberg", dove il giardino è ben curato, gli abiti perfettamente stirati, i fiori sempre freschi sul tavolo e i genitori comprensivi e sorridenti? Forse a minacciare l'equilibrio di Yayoi è una sensibilità paranormale che le fa percepire presenze invisibili, e che contrasta con l'incapacità a ricordare gli anni dell'infanzia, stranamente cancellati dalla sua memoria. O forse il pericolo è il suo trasporto per Tetsuo che tende a superare i limiti dell'affetto fraterno.

A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to embark on an unstoppable rampage through the city’s train network… A young woman is accompanied home one night by a reclusive student, and finds herself lured into a flat full of eerie Egyptian artefacts… A man suspects his young wife’s obsession with picnicking every weekend in the city’s…

その夜〈さきちゃん〉は、小さな奇跡に守られていた。失踪した友人を捜す早紀(さき)。祖父母秘伝の豆スープを配る咲(さき)。双子の兄を事故で亡くした崎(さき)の部屋に転がり込んだ、10歳の姪さき……。彼女たちに訪れた小さな奇跡が、かけがえのないきらめきを放つ。きつい世の中を、明るく正直に。前を向いて生きようとする女の子たちに贈る、人生の愛おしさに包み込まれる5つの物語。

Банана Ёсимото — современная японская писательница, чьи книги выходят в Японии миллионными тиражами. Повесть «Moonlight Shadow» — дебютное произведение Банана Ёсимото, которое было включено в книгу «Кухня».
Банана Ёсимото (род. 24 июля 1964 года в Токио) — японская писательница. Настоящее имя Махоко Ёсимото.
Официальный литературным дебютом является роман «Кухня», получивший сразу три приза: премию журнала «Кайэн» 1987 г. за лучший дебют в ноябре 1987 года, литературную премию Кёка Идзуми в январе 1988 и рекомендательную премию министерства образования в августе 1988. Сейчас это самое известное её произведение переведено на многие языки и продаётся в 20 странах мира.
Всего Банана Ёсимото написала более 20 повестей, рассказов и эссе, а также несколько работ в соавторстве. По трём её произведениям — «Кухня», «Цугуми» и «Аргентинская бабка» — были сняты фильмы.
Произведения Бананы Ёсимото пользуются особой популярностью среди молодежи, воспитанной на комиксах и телевидении, сразу же по выходе становясь бестселлерами. Так, «Кухня» к настоящему моменту выдержала в Японии свыше 70 переизданий. Исходя из тиражей и читательской популярности, восьмидесятые—девяностые годы в японской литературе можно назвать эпохой Ёсимото и Мураками.

Yumikos Vergangenheit birgt ein Geheimnis, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Cousin Shôichi möchte sie den Schlüssel dazu finden. ›Ihre Nacht‹ beschreibt eine unheimliche Grenzerfahrung und deren Bewältigung. Die Geschichte einer Heilung – auch durch die Kraft der Liebe.

Kazami, una joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea al libro de cuentos, titulado N.P, del escritor Sarao Takase. Poco a poco el lector va sintiendo la fascinación letal que ejerce la obra sobre quienes se acercan a estudiarla, en especial sobre sus traductores, uno de los cuales se quitó la vida desp ués de traducir el relato número noventa y ocho. En cuanto Kazami conoce en una fiesta a los hijos del escritor, detecta inmediatamente una estela de locura en los ojos de esos hermanos tiernamente incestuosos. Así es como ella se verá envuelta en un inextricable laberinto del que nacerá un amor salvaje y desenfrenado.