Yayoi’s visit to her eccentric aunt rekindles unforgotten moments from her past in this masterful tale from the acclaimed author of Kitchen about memory and the things we are most scared of losing.
I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.
Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.
Deciding to take a break, she goes to stay with her mysterious but beloved aunt Yukino, whose strange behaviour includes waking Yayoi at two in the morning to be her drinking companion, watching Friday the 13th repeatedly and throwing away all the things she wants to forget.
Living a life without order, Yukino seems to be protecting herself, but beneath this facade Yayoi starts to recover lost memories, and everything she knows about her past threatens to change forever.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571382309
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 157 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 10 mm
Edition: Main
'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' - Vanity Fair'One of our greatest writers ... in her delivery Yoshimoto is a master.' - BRYAN WASHINGTON
The Premonition
A bizarrely heart-warming book with dark and taboo themes
The blurb on this novella absolutely does not prepare you for all the dark little side streets this story is going to wander down.
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Banana Yoshimoto has such an eloquence in tone and the joint joyous, melancholy in her writing.
The Premonition is a short book following our protagonist Yayoi as she embarks on a journey to uncover the haunting...
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Lucid, visceral, existential, and emotionally healing. This was just the book I needed to pick up and read. I adored every minute of Yoshimoto’s beautiful prose, and the way she magically weaves this nostalgic story.
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