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Banana Yoshimoto


Japan (b.1964)

Banana Yoshimoto, née Yoshimoto Mahoko, was born on July 24, 1964 in Tokyo. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, and the daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, an influential Japanese philosopher. But if you were Japanese or living in Japan, you already would have known this.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction, Romance
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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Mittens and Pity
 
Novels
   N.P. (1994)
   Amrita (1997)
   Asleep (2000)
   Goodbye, Tsugumi (2002)
   The Lake (2011)
   Moshi-Moshi (2016)
   The Premonition (2023)
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Collections
   Kitchen (1993)
   Lizard (1995)
   Hardboiled and Hard Luck (2005)
   Him Her That (2013) (with Wisut Ponnimit)
   Dead-End Memories (2022)
   Mittens and Pity (2025)
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Books containing stories by Banana Yoshimoto
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New Japanese Voices (2003)
The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan
edited by
Helen Mitsios

Banana Yoshimoto recommends
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird (2024)
Hiromi Kawakami
"A sad but beautiful depiction of a perishing world."
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Coin Locker Babies (1995)
Ryu Murakami
"Its power grabbed me by the heart."

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