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
Novels
N.P. (1994)
Amrita (1997)
Asleep (2000)
Goodbye, Tsugumi (2002)
The Lake (2011)
Moshi-Moshi (2016)
The Premonition (2023)
Amrita (1997)
Asleep (2000)
Goodbye, Tsugumi (2002)
The Lake (2011)
Moshi-Moshi (2016)
The Premonition (2023)
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)
Lizard (1995)
Hardboiled and Hard Luck (2005)
Him Her That (2013) (with Wisut Ponnimit)
Dead-End Memories (2022)
Mittens and Pity (2025)
Books containing stories by Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto recommends
Under the Eye of the Big Bird (2024)
Hiromi Kawakami
"A sad but beautiful depiction of a perishing world."
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