Biography Edit Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, and grew up in a liberal family. Her father is the famous poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto , and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. While there, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of banana flowers , a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun. She named American author Stephen King as one of her first major influences and drew inspiration from his non-horror stories.

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Today, a dozen-odd years down the road, Banana-mania continues unabated. It will likely be the last summer they spend together: Maria is moving to Tokyo with her parents; Yoko will be moving with her parents when they complete plans for a new hotel; and Tsugumi is dying. In her public persona, Tsugumi is frail and waifish, pale and beautiful, soft-spoken and sweet. Among her family and close confidantes, though, Tsugumi is nothing short of a raving harridan, Japanese-style.
Thoroughly spoiled and frequently malicious, Tsugumi provokes fights, lies constantly and generally makes life miserable for those around her. Now, for one final summer, the three girls will hang out together, walk along the deserted beach, reminisce and indulge in summer romances.
Goodbye Tsugumi is told in the first person by Maria, who shares a particularly complex relationship with her charismatic cousin. It is an unsettling realization for Maria, as it threatens all of her notions of home, love, family and belonging. Fans of Haruki Murakami will find a kindred spirit in Yoshimoto, but it is too easy, and more than a bit unfair, to compare her writing just to other Japanese authors.
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. It is rather a snapshot of a life, or lives, out of balance, sometimes visibly, sometimes just beneath the surface.
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Today, a dozen-odd years down the road, Banana-mania continues unabated. It will likely be the last summer they spend together: Maria is moving to Tokyo with her parents; Yoko will be moving with her parents when they complete plans for a new hotel; and Tsugumi is dying. In her public persona, Tsugumi is frail and waifish, pale and beautiful, soft-spoken and sweet. Among her family and close confidantes, though, Tsugumi is nothing short of a raving harridan, Japanese-style. Thoroughly spoiled and frequently malicious, Tsugumi provokes fights, lies constantly and generally makes life miserable for those around her.
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Biography[ edit ] Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, and grew up in a liberal family. Her father is the famous poet and critic Takaaki Yoshimoto , and her sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. While there, she adopted the pseudonym "Banana", after her love of banana flowers , a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun. She named American author Stephen King as one of her first major influences and drew inspiration from his non-horror stories. There have been two film adaptations: a Japanese TV movie[ citation needed ] and a more widely released version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced in Hong Kong by Ho Yim in Publications[ edit ] Her works include twelve novels and seven collections of essays including Pineapple Pudding and Song From Banana which have together sold over six million copies worldwide.
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