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Amrita
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An exquisite book about the ebb and flow of a young Japanese woman's life.Although I generally don't like magical realism,I still enjoyed this book.
The title "Amrita" means immortality.Sakumi is a young woman whose sister,an actress commits suicide in scandalous,mysterious circumstances.She herself has had a head injury which results in the loss of her childhood memories.
She is visited by ghosts and receives telepathic messages.Her brother who has mystical powers,predicts an air crash and the appearance of a UFO over Tokyo.
Her fiance is on a sorrow filled journey of his own through grief and redemption.There is a final confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a remote Pacific island.
But as the author says,"regardless of all the amazing things that happen to us,there will always be the never ending cycle of daily life."
It doesn't sound like my kind of book at all.But Banana Yoshimoto keeps it very readable.More than the magical realism part,what kept me far more interested were the more prosaic details of daily life.
The title "Amrita" means immortality.Sakumi is a young woman whose sister,an actress commits suicide in scandalous,mysterious circumstances.She herself has had a head injury which results in the loss of her childhood memories.
She is visited by ghosts and receives telepathic messages.Her brother who has mystical powers,predicts an air crash and the appearance of a UFO over Tokyo.
Her fiance is on a sorrow filled journey of his own through grief and redemption.There is a final confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a remote Pacific island.
But as the author says,"regardless of all the amazing things that happen to us,there will always be the never ending cycle of daily life."
It doesn't sound like my kind of book at all.But Banana Yoshimoto keeps it very readable.More than the magical realism part,what kept me far more interested were the more prosaic details of daily life.
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June 24, 2017
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August 29, 2017
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April 27, 2020
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I read it a fairly long while ago.I won't call it dramatic but found it very readable.Credit goes to the translator as well.I'd also like to read more of her work,including Kitchen.
I'm not sure if I'll like UFO aliens in a book.