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“My favorite so far of Yoshimoto's. Very floaty and non-linear kind of. Interesting plot elements and good characters/mystical elements mixed in with every day simplicity. Kind of a soft first person narrator voice mixed with a few letters.”
Amanda wrote this review Friday, March 30, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A novel which deals with memory, loss, life and our perception of what has passed and what will happen”
fourcats wrote this review Saturday, February 12, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Never finished.”
Giulia M wrote this review Thursday, December 23, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Interesting. Very fine descriptions of the landscape and of states of mind”
uma ranganathan wrote this review Saturday, December 18, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I read this while I was exploring Asian authors. Definitely a weird book.”
Vincent N wrote this review Tuesday, June 22, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“There's a disjoint in this story. It suddenly jumped into a time when she had to recover her memory after a fall. Makes you feel as if you actually lost something in between, too. Don't know if that's intended...”
divamaudie wrote this review Thursday, October 8, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Not Yoshimoto's best. I think she overreached herself. It's a touching story of love, loss and remembrance but needed an editor.”
Sorella M wrote this review Friday, July 3, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“fiction, japanese literature, japan, japanese, women writers, contemporary fiction, banana yoshimoto, novella, short stories, cooking, female author, food, family, 20th century fiction, modern japanese lit, yoshimoto, 20th century, contemporary, death, japanese lit”
Jamila C wrote this review Friday, June 26, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied at times by her dead sister's lover, at others by her clairvoyant kid brother. This is the story of Sakumi's remarkable expedition through grief, dreams, and shadows to a place of transformation and the discovery of a soul. ”
Wendy wrote this review Thursday, April 30, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The story is quite dragging and boring. It is inferior compared to others books written by Yoshimoto NP and Kitchen. Nonetheless, I like Saseko (one of the characters in the book)... ”
sairutsagealach wrote this review Sunday, January 18, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
