Banana Yoshimoto

Goodbye Tsugumi

Narrator says goodbye to her dying cousin while drifting through adolescence

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Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto

Japanese novelist whose debut Kitchen became a cult classic for its tender exploration of grief and recovery. Her accessible, quietly profound fiction has a global following. She is the most internationally popular Japanese literary novelist after Murakami.

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