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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 Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a "normal" family. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family. She also has to confront both Tsugumi's inner strength and the real possibility of losing her. Goodbye Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of the world's finest young writers.
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"A rollicking good read about the paradoxical nature of love and blood."
"Yoshimoto's words are considered, and each of them has the weigh of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool....In Tsugumi the author has created one of her most palpable and intriguing characters."
"There is no such thing as a stock character in Yoshimoto's fiction....[She] writes utterly without pretense."
"Bittersweet...buoyant...[Yoshimoto] shines like few contemporaries when writing about the sea.
"A vital portrait of a complicated friendship."
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"Yoshimoto's words are considered, and each of them has the weigh of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool....In Tsugumi the author has created one of her most palpable and intriguing characters."
"There is no such thing as a stock character in Yoshimoto's fiction....[She] writes utterly without pretense."
"Bittersweet...buoyant...[Yoshimoto] shines like few contemporaries when writing about the sea.
"A vital portrait of a complicated friendship."
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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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0802139914
- ISBN 13 9780802139917
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