366 pages
English language
Published July 8, 1997 by Faber and Faber.
Amrita
Banana Yoshimoto: Amrita (1997, Faber and Faber)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-571-19279-3
- OCLC Number:
- 37552641
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A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiancé who is writing a novel with uncanny parallels to his own story.
Subjects
- Family -- Japan -- Fiction.
- Bereavement -- Fiction.
- Grief -- Fiction.
- Self-realization -- Fiction.
- Japan -- Fiction.