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Banana Yoshimoto, 1964 - Novelist Banana Yoshimoto was born Mahoko Yoshimoto on July 24, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. She is the daughter of poet and commentator Yoshimoto Ryumei, who had an impact on the radical student movement of the late 1960's. She attended Tokyo's Nihon University, where she studied creative writing and won a faculty award for her 1987 graduation novel "Moonlight Shadow." While working as a waitress, she took moments out of her day to write a novel and, at the age of 24, the result was "Kitchen" (1988), which is the story of a lonely woman who moves her bed into the kitchen, finding comfort in the humming of the refrigerator. She also wrote "Pineapple Pudding" and "Fruit Basket," which were both bestsellers. Her novel "Lizard" was dedicated to the memory of the late rocker Kurt Cobain and the novel "Long Night of Marika/Bali Dream Diary" (1996) was considered a flop. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Kitchen… (more)
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Asleep 1,220 copies, 21 reviews
Goodbye Tsugumi 1,171 copies, 30 reviews
Lizard 1,079 copies, 19 reviews
Amrita 962 copies, 13 reviews
Hardboiled and Hard Luck 632 copies, 9 reviews
The Lake 514 copies, 31 reviews
Moshi Moshi 221 copies, 9 reviews
Sly 123 copies, 3 reviews
L'abito di piume 111 copies, 2 reviews
Presagio triste 105 copies, 5 reviews
Il corpo sa tutto 96 copies, 1 review
L'ultima amante di Hachiko 94 copies, 3 reviews
Honeymoon 90 copies
Dead-End Memories: Stories 83 copies, 2 reviews
Arcobaleno 75 copies, 3 reviews
Ricordi di un vicolo cieco 74 copies, 3 reviews
Il coperchio del mare 66 copies, 3 reviews
La piccola ombra 58 copies, 1 review
Delfini 45 copies, 4 reviews
Un viaggio chiamato vita 38 copies, 1 review
High & Dry. Primo amore 35 copies, 1 review
A proposito di lei 27 copies, 1 review
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どんぐり姉妹 1 copy, 1 review
1994 1 copy
Say ngủ 1 copy
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