Genevieve Gaunt

Unequivocally Japanese: The Premonition, by Banana Yoshimoto, reviewed

The world that blossoms in this haunting novel about the importance of memory is in the aesthetic vein known as ‘mono no aware’, or ‘the pathos of things’

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  • The Premonition

    Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda

    Faber, pp. 224, £12

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