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	Bookslut \| An Interview with Banana Yoshimoto
		Banana Yoshimoto, née Yoshimoto Mahoko, was born on July 24, 1964 in Tokyo.
		While online shrines are routinely constructed for Yoshimoto in Japan, she remains somewhat of a mystery overseas, which is why this interviewer feels compelled to exhaustively describe Yoshimoto and her work before delving into the actual interview.
		Given the humane nature of Yoshimoto’s work and the fact that she renamed herself Banana, it is not surprising that food is a recurring theme in many of her stories.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2005_08_006254.php (1313 words)

	Japan File: THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO YOSHIMOTO BANANA
		Yoshimoto Banana was born Yoshimoto Maiko in Tokyo in 1964.
		Daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, a left-leaning intellectual who was extremely influential on the radical student movement of the late 1960s, she appears to have enjoyed a notably liberal upbringing, moving in with her boyfriend while still in high school.
		Yoshimoto's preoccupation with universal themes, coupled with the wide appeal of her books, has caused many to see her as an "international" author.
	www.japanfile.com /books/features/Yoshimoto_Banana.shtml (802 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Banana Yoshimoto
		The biographical blurb inside Yoshimoto' novel N.P. reads: "Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964.
		Yoshimoto Mahoko was born on July 24 1964, and is the daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, aka Ryumei, probably the most famous and influential Japanese philosopher and critic to emerge out of the 1960s New Left.
		One of the chief influences on her writing, both in terms of style and content, was the work of Steven King (particularly his non-horror stories), whom she still greatly admires.
	www.metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive299/271/biginjapaninc.htm (598 words)

	Amazon.ca: Asleep: Books: Banana Yoshimoto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoshimoto has a wonderfully light touch and whilst the characterisation in these novellas is slight and the mysticism a little cloying, the optimism is infectious and the sadness beautifully articulated.
		Yoshimoto is allowing the reader to be privy to the very private, intimate world of her characters.
		Yoshimoto is writing for another group of readers, she is writing for young Japanese women who have graduated from two year colleges and are working as Office Ladies.
	www.amazon.ca /Asleep-Banana-Yoshimoto/dp/0802116698 (2221 words)

	Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep
		Banana Yoshimoto’s collection of short stories, Asleep, includes three tales about young Japanese women dealing with sleep issues that signify underlying spiritual difficulties in their personal lives, each of which results in a Zen understanding of appreciating life, even in the toughest of times.
		Banana Yoshimoto is the daughter of Yoshimoto Nahoko, one of Japan’s most famous philosophers and critics (Wilce).
		When Yoshimoto’s father and mother met, her mother was married to another man. She fell in love with Yoshimoto Mahoko, however, and the two of them were married, giving birth to Banana.
	www.shelterbelt.com /ALLASIA/leee.html (2433 words)

	Japan, Banana Yoshimoto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Banana Yoshimoto zeichnet mit knappen Worten in dieser eigentümlichen Sprache eindrücklich und lebendig Personen, Charaktere und Gefühle, und dies so überzeugend, daß sich in Japan bereits sechs Millionen Leser begeistern und damit identifizieren können.
		Ebenso wie sie inhaltlich und stilistisch ineinander übergehen und ein Gesamtbild ergeben, passen sämtliche Erzählungen Banana Yoshimotos zusammen wie Steine in einem Mosaik.
		Banana Yoshimoto ist keineswegs 'nur' eine japanische Schriftstellerin für ein spezifisch japanisches Lesepublikum.
	www.titel-forum.de /japan/yoshim.htm (1854 words)

	Banana Yoshimoto - Sly - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Banana Yoshimotos "ungefilterter" Aidsroman "Sly" hat Rezensent Steffen Gnam vollauf überzeugt.
		Das ist Yoshimoto mit ihrem Roman um den aidsinfizierten Takashi, der mit seinen beiden Freunden und Ex-Liebhabern Kiyose und Hideo nach Ägypten reist, wieder einmal bestens gelungen, meint Gnam.
		Von den Büchern Banana Yoshimotos kann Susanne Messmer gar nicht genug kriegen.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/11643.html (697 words)

	Banana Yoshimoto
		Banana Yoshimoto (よしもとばなな Yoshimoto Banana, July 24, 1964 -) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本真秀子 Yoshimoto Mahoko), a Japanese author.
		Yoshimoto, daughter of Takaaki Yoshimoto (also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto), was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964.
		She won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize in November 1987 and then the 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize in January 1988, for her first work entitled Kitchen.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/ba/banana_yoshimoto.html (149 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Goodbye Tsugumi
		Yoshimoto credits Stephen King as one of her major influences, but it would be equally reasonable to compare her to such diverse talents as Anne Tyler and Douglas Coupland.
		On the one hand, Yoshimoto crafts the sort of rich dialogues and relationships that Tyler is famous for; on the other hand, she captures the elusive voice of alienated youth, Japanese Gen-X. As is the case with several of Yoshimoto's previous novels, Goodbye Tsugumi doesn't really have a beginning, middle and end.
		Yoshimoto brings to the table compelling characters, a spare and ethereal manner of writing and an eye for the way in which terrible experiences shape one's life.
	www.bookpage.com /0208bp/fiction/goodbye_tsugumi.html (454 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Asleep: Books: Banana Yoshimoto,Michael Emmerich (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yoshimoto has a wonderfully light touch and whilst the characterisation in these novellas is slight and the mysticism a little cloying, the optimism is infectious and the sadness beautifully articulated.
		Like most of Banana Yoshimotos books there is a certain dream like quality about them and although on the surface they seem to be stories about not very much dig a little deeper and you will see how deep they really go; they make a very good reflective read.
		Banana Yoshimoto is a deceptively simple writer, elegant and subtle, effortlessly inhabiting her characters and allowing her readers to slip into her weird and enigmatic worlds.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Asleep-Banana-Yoshimoto/dp/0802116698 (1236 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Banana Yoshimoto
		Yoshimoto Mahoko was born on July 24 1964, and is the daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, aka Ryumei, probably the most famous and influential Japanese philosopher and critic to emerge out of the 1960s New Left.
		Mahoko grew up in a leftist, liberal family with significantly more freedom than the typical Japanese teenager and, while she was still in high school, she moved in with her boyfriend.
		One of the chief influences on her writing, both in terms of style and content, was the work of Steven King (particularly his non-horror stories), whom she still greatly admires.
	metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive299/271/biginjapaninc.htm (598 words)

	New Statesman - Fiction - Bad dreams
		Banana Yoshimoto's first novel, Kitchen, catapulted her to fame in her native Japan and led to one of her stories being serialised on the Tokyo train system.
		Despite failing to create distinct voices for her characters, she presents large chunks of speech without reporting clauses, leaving the reader confused as to who is talking.
		Chizuru tells the narrator that she must "live a hard-boiled life", but there is little hard-boiled about Yoshimoto's fiction, and phrases such as "When you take a spill, you can always rise up from it with something good in your hand" read like inspirational fridge magnets.
	www.newstatesman.com /200507250048 (646 words)

	Abyss : Bananamania : Banana Yoshimoto : Index
		Banana's first (and best) novella with a bonus short story called Moonlight Shadow.
		We have included information from a variety of sources which should hopefully tell us a bit about Banana Yoshimoto and her life.
		We collected some photos and drawings of Banana Yoshimoto and although they are quite old now, perhaps you will still enjoy them.
	abyss.hubbe.net /banana (347 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto, reviewed by Powells.com
		Her latest offering to appear in English displays the spare, understated prose that has become Yoshimoto's trademark, and her writing is well wedded to this perfect little tale of memory and maturation.
		It didn't matter what [Tsugumi] put us through, or what awful things she said to us just because she happened to be in a crummy mood.Beyond her words and beyond her heart, much deeper than all that, supporting the snarl of who she was, was a light so strong it made you sad.
		Yoshimoto's use of light, airy prose to illuminate weighty topics like death and suffering lends her work a haunting quality, worthy of occupying haunted mailboxes everywhere.
	www.powells.com /review/2002_08_24.html (742 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen: Books: Banana Yoshimoto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Perhaps she wishes to say that it is pointless worrying about such things, that one should just accept them and carry on with life, because otherwise something wonderful might be missed in the present or just around the corner.
		Banana Yoshimoto writes with fluency and emotion, drawing you into the heart of the protagonist's story.
		Banana Yoshimoto's sparse style of prose evokes a serene sense of repose.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Kitchen-Banana-Yoshimoto/dp/0571171044 (1170 words)

	Bookreporter.com - GOODBYE TSUGUMI by Banana Yoshimoto
		Originally published in Japan in 1989, popular international author Banana Yoshimoto's GOODBYE TSUGUMI is the tale of a pair of teenage cousins, Maria Shirakawa and Tsugumi Yamamoto, and the final summer they spend together in the sleepy Japanese coastal village where they were raised.
		Yoshimoto creates an almost magical feeling of nostalgia for childhood summers gone by that sweeps the reader up in its spell.
		While her latest effort may not ignite the literary buzz that her earlier works KITCHEN and ASLEEP did, GOODBYE TSUGUMI is sure to please Banana Yoshimoto fans as well as those who enjoy the simple beauty of a quietly told character study.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0802116388.asp (700 words)

	Banana Yoshimoto on LibraryThing \| Catalog your books online
		Banana translated from the Japanese by Sherif, Ann (separate)
		A: Yoshimoto, Yoshimoto/Satoe, Banana; Backus, Megan Yoshimoto, Banana; Wasden, Russell F. Yoshimoto
		Also known as: Banana Yoshimoto, Banana Yoshimodo, B Yoshimoto, Banana; Emmerich, Michael (translator) Yoshimoto, Banana translated from the Japanese by Sherif, Ann, Banana Yoshomito
	www.librarything.com /author/yoshimotobanana (356 words)

	Powell's Books - Amrita by
		Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller...The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful.
		Entering Banana Yoshimoto's fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo —; everyday things are disconcertingly different.
		The exotic lurks around every corner...What sets Yoshimoto apart, though, is her blunt candor, a sense of truth, no matter how odd or awkward, is more important than polish...
	www.powells.com /biblio/2-0671532855-2 (279 words)

	Book Review: Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto: ThingsAsian
		And Banana Yoshimoto's unaffected descriptions of time and place render them positively palpable.
		Banana Yoshimoto neophytes who read her works in English may find them naïve, verging on amateurish.
		In her native Japan, Banana Yoshimoto, daughter of renowned 1960's New Left philosoper Ryumei (Takaaki Yoshimoto) and sister of popular cartoonist Haruno Yoiko, has won much critical acclaim.
	www.thingsasian.com /stories-photos/1798 (1327 words)

	Unrecognized Banana Yoshimoto Page
		Banana's Asleep is due for release on July 26, 2000.
		It's heavy in Banana's trademark mysticism, and is supposedly one of her best works.
		Banana has a new book in English on July 26, 2000, Asleep.
	members.tripod.com /~theproof/banana (104 words)

	Banana Notes
		Banana's works are atmospheric, dreamlike and, as suggested above, seem to share a great deal in common with the shojo (young girl) manga, or comics targeted to young female readers between middle-school and their early thirties.
		Critics, however, often view Banana and her success as final confirmation of a fundamental shift in how one is to understand ‘culture’ in Japan since the early 1970s, particularly ‘literary culture’.
		In fairness to Yoshimoto's recent work, it should be said that it does faithfully reflect the habits and attitudes of the young in Japan, a youth culture in which the surface resembles its counterparts in New York or Paris.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/ybanana.html (2141 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - AMRITA by Banana Yoshimoto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Banana Yoshimoto has been hailed as a voice for a global Generation X, and a writer whose appeal is not limited by international boundaries.
		With her detailed descriptions of daily life, Yoshimoto subtly points out many of the small, everyday things that are valuable supports for living.
		Yoshimoto reveals at the end of the novel that the word "amrita" comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "divine nectar." Describe what you think this divine nectar is in the novel.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/amrita.asp (602 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Goodbye Tsugumi, by Banana Yoshimoto, Hardcover, Bargain
		Yoshimoto favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities.
		Novelist Yoshimoto (Kitchen, etc.) is a sensation of sorts in Japan and wherever her fiction has been available and for good reason.
		Yoshimoto's trademark blend of slangy prose and traditional Japanese affinity for nature is here again, though typical of her fresh outlook is a lovely scene when the girls walk over a mountain at night to dispel their sorrow over the final broadcast of a favorite TV show.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780641715624&pwb=1&z=y (992 words)

	Banana Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Yoshimoto's novels have made her an international sensation, and her most recent, "Asleep, " was a triumphant performance, delighting her fans.
		In "N.P., "Banana Yoshimoto’ s enchanting novel of uncanny subtlety, style, magic, and mystery, a celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English." "But the book, itself titled "N.P.," may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story...
		Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Banana (516 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: Asleep, by Banana Yoshimoto
		Banana Yoshimoto is one of those writers you just can't get out of your head once you've read anything by her.
		Yoshimoto broke out from the starting gate at age 23, causing 'Banana-mania' in Japan with her first novel,
		Yoshimoto is the voice of urban Japanese twenty-somethings, primarily dealing with romantic versus familial relationships, as well as social and employment issues.
	www.homestead.com /rantsravesreviews/Asleep.html (229 words)

	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Banana Yoshimoto
		The biographical blurb inside Yoshimoto' novel N.P. reads: "Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964.
		Yoshimoto Mahoko was born on July 24 1964, and is the daughter of Yoshimoto Takaaki, aka Ryumei, probably the most famous and influential Japanese philosopher and critic to emerge out of the 1960s New Left.
		One of the chief influences on her writing, both in terms of style and content, was the work of Steven King (particularly his non-horror stories), whom she still greatly admires.
	metropolis.japantoday.com /biginjapanarchive299/271/biginjapaninc.htm (598 words)

	Book of the Week (2/8/2001): Banana Yoshimoto: Amrita (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was going to say it's overlong, but the only real way to tell how long a story like this needed to be would have been to tear it down and build it back up again.
		The biggest problem was Yoshimoto's growing fascination with telepathy, precognition, and other "unexplained" phenomena: it wasn't just that Yoshimoto's outlook on such things was hopelessly naive and gullible, but that she has now tried to implement such things in a story which, despite her best efforts, remains thin and frivolous.
		Worse yet, Yoshimoto's style brings out the worst in this story, especially when she uses it to try and give things a gravity they simply don't have.
	www.thegline.com /book-of-the-week/2001/02-08-2001.htm (723 words)

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