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	1	Kitchen Yoshimoto, Banana; Backus, Megan (translator) Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated 1992 New York, NY, U.S.A. 0802115160 / 9780802115164 First American Edition First Printing Hard Cover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket 16mo 6" - 7" tall 194 pages DJ has a touch of edgewear along top; protected by Brodart cover. Book is As New. The author's first book, which was a sensational bestseller in Japan when it was first published in 1988, and the winner of two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes. Translated by Megan Backus. Price: 12.50 USD
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	2	Lizard Yoshimoto, Banana Grove Press 1995 New York, New York, U.S.A. 0802115640 / 9780802115645 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover As New in As New dust jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 180 pages DJ preserved in mylar. As New condition, fresh and clean. Enormously popular in Japan, Yoshimoto has gained an American audience with her hip novels Kitchen (LJ 12/92) and NP (LJ 1/94). Her first collection of short stories will appeal strongly to "X-ers." Articulate and young but already jaded and wistful urbanites populate these reflective tales of relationships and discovery. Lacking faith, hope, and a substantive cultural context, the protagonists compensate with self-scrutiny and emotional intrigue. Sometimes they stumble upon magic, as in the figure of the enigmatic healer Lizard or a trenchant shape shifter on a commuter train. Unfortunately, between writing and translation, Yoshimoto's concepts consistently outshine her execution; facile descriptions and narratorial overinterpretation weigh down these thoughtful stories. Price: 8.00 USD
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	3	Lizard Yoshimoto, Banana Grove Press 1995 New York, New York, U.S.A. 0802115640 / 9780802115645 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 180 pages Fresh, clean First Edition. DJ preserved in mylar cover. Japan's Yoshimoto (N. P. ) delivers an engaging, rather lightweight collection of six stories chronicling the romantic adventures, spiritual yearnings and familial troubles of a hip set of young, Japanese professionals. Each story is told in a spare, quizzical, highly conversational style, through the eyes of characters who encounter odd coincidences and spiritual epiphanies while attempting to negotiate life's turning points. In the title piece, a man salvages his relationship with his lover, an antisocial acupuncturist with mysterious healing powers whom he calls Lizard, by making a pilgrimage to an ancient temple and sharing disturbing childhood secrets. In "Blood and Water, " a woman flees her parents' Buddhist sect in a provincial village, falls in love with a man in Tokyo who makes amulets and gradually comes to terms with her own religious aspirations. "A Strange Tale from Down by the River" is an allegory about a woman who abandons a life of shallow sexual exploits, recognizes her own spiritual affinities with the natural world and gets married. A lesser effort from Yoshimoto, yet there's a fleeting pathos to these offbeat tales of a contemporary Tokyo interpenetrated by the routines of modern office life and the animistic forces of the ancient world. Price: 8.00 USD
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	4	N.P.: A Novel Yoshimoto, Banana Grove Press 1994 New York, New York, U.S.A. 0802115454 / 9780802115454 First Edition Hard Cover Fine in Fine dust jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall DJ preserved in mylar cover. Fresh and clean As New. Price: 9.00 USD
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