The Premonition

Author: Yoshimoto, Banana

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 12 October 2023 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 144 pages
216 x 136 x 12 | 166g

From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan.

Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding. Daily MailReading Banana Yoshimoto is like taking a bracing, cleansing bath. LING MAGorgeous . . . an invitation to explore [Yoshimotos] unusual, alluring world. The TelegraphI 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 youd see in a Spielberg movie. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that shes forgotten something important about her past.

Deciding to take a break, she stays with her eccentric but beloved aunt Yukino. 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.

A sure and lyrical writer . . . Yoshimoto transforms the trite into the essential. The New YorkerYoshimotos novels are like jewel boxes. Vanity Fair