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Kitchen
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Banana Yoshimoto
Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
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Lizard
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In these six stories, the author of "Tugumi" and "NP" explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. The stories are a blend of traditional Japanese and contemporary popular culture.
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NP
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A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, N.P.. But it may never be published in Japan: each translator who takes up the 98th story chooses death, too. After her boyfriend commits suicide, Kazami is compelled to discover the truth behind the 98th story.
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Amrita
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Banana Yoshimoto
"The Water Buddha Drinks" opens with the death of a celebrated actress in mysterious and shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional, extended family that includes a younger sister, a woman in her 20s through whose eyes the story unfolds; a kid brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiancee who is writing a novel with uncanny ...
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Asleep
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Banana Yoshimoto
A woman sleepwalks after the loss of her lover. Another is in love with a man whose wife is in a coma. And a third is unable to sleep because she is haunted by someone she wronged. These three novellas about sleep in its various aspects are by one of Japan's most popular writers.
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
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Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (Translator)
Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim. In her latest work, she delivers two tales of resonant grace, of young women coming to terms with change and heartbreak.
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Goodbye Tsugumi
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Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (Translator)
Maria and Tsugumi are cousins whose relationship has veered between antagonism and affection. Tsugumi is chronically ill as well as bad-tempered, and Maria suffers from the fact that her parents never married. As an adult, Maria looks back fondly on the last summer when, as a teenager, she stayed with Tsugumi and her family at the inn they run.
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N.P.
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Banana Yoshimoto
Referring to a book of 97 stories called NP written by a depressed Japanese writer, Banana Yoshimoto tells the story of a narrator's involvement with his estranged wife and two children and of the effect the stories have had on everyone who has tried to translate them.
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Juices & Health Drinks
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Catherine Larner, Top That! (Photographer), Banana Stock (Photographer)
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Catch
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Catch shows the many ways people across Asia catch fish. A Chinese proverb says, Dont stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net. Fishing has been one of man's main pursuits throughout the ages. Asia's oceans, lakes, and rivers provide for a substantial part its peoples diet. Ingenious contraptions and clever devices have been ...
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Kitchen : Banana Yoshimoto
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Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus
Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.
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Doors
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Doors illustrates the many styles in which people across Asia design and decorate passageways to their homes and buildings. A Chinese proverb says, Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Doors are symbols of passage and guardians of unknown treasures. Their character offers a hint of what lies behind. The variety of doors across Asia is ...
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Sueno Profundo
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Banana Yoshimoto
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Newlywed
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Sly
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Banana; Brockmann Yoshimoto, Anita
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Kitchin
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Banana Yoshimoto
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Dur, Dur
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Argentine Hag
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Turmoil and tenacity : Zimbabwe, 1890-1990
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Kitchen. 3 Cds
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Tsugumi
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Banana Yoshimoto, Albert Nolla (Translator), Bibiana Morante (Translator)
Yoshimoto favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities. Her latest, following in the style of earlier books such as Kitchen and Asleep, is a careful examination of the relationship between two teenage cousins in a seaside Japanese town. Maria Shirakawa is a thoughtful young woman thrown ...
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Hardboiled Hard Luck
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Banana Yoshimoto
"Hardboiled" opens as the narrator treks high above her secluded mountain hotel on the anniversary of her lover's death. "Hard Luck" opens with another female narrator, this time at the bedside of her sister, who lies in a coma. Exploring the ghosts of love, memory, and intimate secrets, these are two haunting and atmospheric tales from Japan's ...
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Lizard - Gde -
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Banana Yoshimoto
In these six stories, the author of "Tugumi" and "NP" explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. The stories are a blend of traditional Japanese and contemporary popular culture.
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100 + 1 banana recipes
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Banana Export Industry Foundation
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