The premonition : a novel / Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Yoneda, Asa, translator.

Standardized Title:

Kanashii yokan. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Young women--Fiction.

Young women.

Single women--Fiction.

Single women.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Teachers--Fiction.

Teachers.

Early memories--Fiction.

Early memories.

Japan--Fiction.

Japan.

Japanese fiction--Translations into English.

Japanese fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First Counterpoint edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2023.

Summary:

"Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino. No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost as though asleep. When she is not working, Yukino spends all day in her pajamas, clipping her nails and trimming her split ends. She eats only when she feels like it, and she often falls asleep lying on her side in the hallway. A child study desk, old stuffed animals-things Yukino wants to forget-are piled up in her backyard like a graveyard of her memories"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781640093713

1640093710

OCLC:

1401259463