| #673927 in Books | Grove Press | 2003-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.36 x.55 x5.04l, | File type: PDF | 186 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Banana, Banana|By Denverboomer|An adventure in translation. Yoshimoto wrote in Japanese. I bought this translated into Italian and used an English translation of the Japanese to help read the Italian. Tsugumi is a very ill teenager who is oppositional, snag nasty and a miserable little bitch. She enjoys playing nasty tricks on people thinking they're funny. Ha ha let's put some|From Publishers Weekly|Yoshimoto favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities. Her latest, following in the style of earlier books such as Kitchen and Asleep, is a careful examination of the relations
Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to T...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Goodbye Tsugumi | Banana Yoshimoto. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.