Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 27 February 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 144 pages
200 x 130 x 10 | 128g
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' DAILY MAIL'Exquisite.' MARIE CLAIRE'A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Casts a delicate spell.' SPECTATOR'Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide . . . It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.
Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.