“I borrowed NP by Yoshimoto with the intention of furthering my knowledge of this amazing Japanese writer and this novel was astonishingly brilliant. I loved it because I love Yoshimoto's voice among those pages.

Her descriptive style is more imaginative than other japanese authors I have read. The prose is actually poetic, visual, olfactory and tactile:
"I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head...”

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