N.P.: A NovelBananamania" has returned in an enchanting new novel of uncanny sulbtlety, style, magic, and mystery that Frank Ramirez of the South Bend Tribune declares is "every bit as good as Yoskimoto's first book ... perhaps better." A celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English, N.P. But the book may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too -- including Kazami Kano's boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji's death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story -- and she will come to believe that "everytking that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 6 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 28 |
Section 5 | 34 |
Section 6 | 43 |
Section 7 | 53 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 14 | 106 |
Section 15 | 111 |
Section 16 | 115 |
Section 17 | 122 |
Section 18 | 139 |
Section 19 | 144 |
Section 20 | 157 |
Section 21 | 164 |
Section 9 | 72 |
Section 10 | 78 |
Section 11 | 85 |
Section 12 | 93 |
Section 13 | 97 |
Section 22 | 174 |
Section 23 | 176 |
Section 24 | 193 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | N.P.: A Novel |
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| Translated by | Ann Sherif |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0671898264, 9780671898267 |
| Length | 194 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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