After my pleasant experience with Murakami has piqued my curiosity with Japanese literature and I have begun to explore a bit while I recognize that a certain shyness. is why I have opted for Banana Yoshimoto, an author also very accessible to Western eyes and, in some cases, it has been defined as a woman Murakami (but Murakami is best known for his novels and stories by Yoshimoto) .
Although announced with "Kitchen" I preferred to start with "Deep Sleep", an anthology of short stories that are read in one breath and I have been very dissappointed.
Indeed, similarities with Murakami are notable both for the style simple and easy to read but with a somewhat reminiscent it only as sadness and depth of their stories. However, it may seem difficult, the Japanese get more sensitive than her male colleague, or at least, has left me that feeling.
"Deep Sleep" contains three stories: the book's title, "The night commuters" and "an experience." The first and last are fantastic and the realistic environment but these labels are not very useful because in this case, what matters is not that gender uses Yoshimoto but it is exactly what we are telling.
And in all three cases we speak of loneliness and death, loss and sadness involved and how to address the weakness inherent to being human. However, as with Murakami not tragic or pessimistic stories rather leave an aftertaste of tenderness and humanity which, though apparently its protagonists are alone, there really is a warm human brotherhood around him that allows them to get ahead how hard it is their experience.
"night travelers" tells how to deal with the death of a loved one (brother of one of the characters and boyfriend of another), and, again, although his approach is realistic, it is true that the story is permeated by an aura of unreality about it to fantasy, if not in substance if the tone.
"Deep Sleep" is the original, while recognizing that Yoshimoto is lavished in terms of innovation, is also the painful loss of a loved one but fascinated by seemingly minor details that, eventually, end up becoming the real axis of history, that deep sleep that first title late practiced as a peculiar profession and then affects their friends no longer as powerful as an illuminating metaphor for how to deal with the crossroads of our lives and friendship as can help beyond death.
"An Experience" is the most fantastic of the three and the most terrifying story of alcoholism and sleep but in which stands a seance really disturbing and puts Yoshimoto as a business devoted to more traditional sources of Terror.
In short, an enjoyable read that I highly recommend and encourage you to read on this author. And that despite the nickname you have chosen that, at least in English, it does sound like a joke ... both
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