Amrita

Author: Banana Yoshimoto

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Price : $25.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780571193745
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Limited
Imprint : Faber & Faber, Limited
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Publication date : 01 January 1997
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 24.99
Availability date : 01 April 2005
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Author : Banana Yoshimoto
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Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 895.635
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Pages : 366
BIC subject : Modern fiction
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Description

An actress dies in shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional extended family of three who embark on a journey through grief and suffering, memories lost and gained, forbidden romance, redemption and recovery, and a confrontation with spirits on a remote Pacific island.

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Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto: 'Pathos, nostalgia, the sense of exquisite sadness at the fleetingness of life are key elements of beauty in Japanese aesthetics, and all are themes central to Yoshimoto's books.' (The Times)

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Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world.

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