About this title: "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 parallels to the story she is living. These three embark on a journey that takes them through grief and suffering, memories lost and regained, forbidden romance, and redemption and recovery in a final confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780671532857ISBN:0671532855
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean pages, no marks or tears, minor reading & shelf wear with corners/edges lightly bumped, light dirt soiling to outer pg edges, little sticker residue on bottom back cover, tight binding, solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780671025779ISBN:0671025775
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Fiction General Synopsis: 366 pages. After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a... read more
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780671532857ISBN:0671532855
Description: Very Good. 0671532855. Softcover, in Very Good condition, paper is tanning with age, a bit of underlining and a few marks in the margin, good binding, covers look nice, read more
"This novel was by turns lovely and exasperating. It has a haunting, reflective tone, punctuated by poor logic. It is evocative of modern Japan, but it leaves major plot lines dangling.
One of the pleasant surprises of the book is the section that takes place in Saipan, the capital of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Funny that I learned about part of the States by reading a Japanese novel.
This book is unlike any other I have ever read. I do not know if I would recommend this to everyone, but I am giving my copy to my brother, who lived in Japan but has never heard of Banana Yoshimoto."
"I loved the characters and was initially drawn into the story quickly and enjoyably. But couldn't help feeling frustrated by the prose and repetitive thought processes the narrator indulges in. Although enjoyable, the whole book would have benefitted from a ruthless copy-editor and losing 100 pages. She seems to owe a lot stylistically and thematically to Murakami and I couldn't help but feel he'd done it better. I'd like to try out her shorter novels."
"Amrita by Banana (parents can be so weird) Yoshimoto is the 3rd of her books I've read in the past week or so...the others being Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi.
Strange writing, comes from being foreign I imagine (not it being strange writing, but rather the fact that it seems strange to me).
Definite style...yes, as the critics say, direct, and yes, moving. Not afraid of the painful.
I wish I could be unafraid of pain...physical, emotional, etc. Oh well, that's human nature, I suppose."
"Between the preface and the beginning of the book, the narrator fell and cracked her head and had a concussion. It took me a while to realize this, but if you read it as a book written by someone who has lost half their memory, it started to make sense."
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