Moshi Moshi / Banana Yoshimoto ; translated by Asa Yoneda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Yoneda, Asa, translator.

Standardized Title:

Moshi moshi Shimokitazawa. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.

Tokyo (Japan).

FICTION / Literary.

Japan--Tokyo.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Literary.

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Counterpoint edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2016.

Summary:

In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying--unsuccessfully--to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message to her through these dreams?

Notes:

"Japanese original edition published by the Mainichi Newspapers. English translation rights arranged with Banana Yoshimoto through ZIPANGO, S.L. and Michael Kevin Staley." -- title page verso.

ISBN:

1619027860

9781619027862

OCLC:

941875634