Libro amrita de banana yoshimoto biography

Banana Yoshimoto, - Novelist Banana Yoshimoto was born Mahoko Yoshimoto on July 24, 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 's. She attended Tokyo's Nihon University, where she studied creative writing and won a faculty award for her 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" (), 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" () was considered a flop.

Sinopsis de Amrita:

Cuando muere un ser querido, su entorno queda trágicamente afectado, en particular cuando todo sugiere que ha sido un suicidio. Tras la muerte misteriosa de Mayu, una joven y famosa actriz, Ryuichiro, su compañero, decide emprender un largo viaje para olvidar. Desde diferentes lugares cuenta sus andanzas en las cartas que envía a Sakumi, la hermana mayor de Mayu, en las que utiliza un inusitado tono de familiaridad y cariño. Sakumi, que no sabe si éste era el estilo habitual empleado por él para dirigirse a su hermana, sucumbe al amor, sobre todo tras sufrir un accidente en el que pierde parte de la memoria. La nueva Sakumi, convertida ya en novia de Ryuichiro, sorprende a todos, porque en ella destellan señales de una segunda personalidad, propia de quienes han estado alguna vez cerca de la muerte

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“Ms. Yoshimoto has an effortless ability to penetrate her characters’ hearts.” —New York Times Book Review

“Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller . . . The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful. The language is deceptively simple.” —Frank Ramirez, Chicago Tribune

“Entering Banana Yoshimoto’s fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo—everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner . . . What sets Yoshimoto apart, though, is her blunt candor, a sense that truth, no matter how odd or awkward, is more important than polish . . . Amrita is difficult to forget.” —Janice P. Nimura, San Francisco Chronicle

“Yoshimoto’s most fully realized work to date . . . Her firm grasp of her characters, her surefooted prose and her wide-eyed exploration of everything from American pop culture to the Japanese language make this one of the most satisfying books of the summer.” —Ben Greenman, Time Out New York

“This endearing, exasperating novel, which follows Yoshimoto’s Lizard, will surely fit in any collection where contemporary fiction circulates well.” —Janet Ingraham, Library Journal

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