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Una adolescente muy particular vive su primer amor y descubre, tras la agitación del corazón, las dificultades de convertirse en adulta.
Los personajes de Yoshimoto ejercen una absoluta fascinación sobre mí ... A pesar de sus desgracias, tienen una capacidad infinita para degustar las cosas de la vida que hacen la vida vivible, y una extraña dignidad, imposible de doblegar. Isabel Coixet, El Dominical
La prosa de Yoshimoto se apoya en la calidad de su transparencia... Un retrato esencial de la soledad. Robert Saladrigas, Cultura/S (La Vanguardia)
Yoshimoto describe como nadie esos estados físicos y emocionales que tanto tienen que ver con el silencio. The New York Times Book Review
Sus logros literarios ya son legendarios. The Boston Globe
Una narradora magistral. Chicago Tribune
Yuko tiene una sensibilidad poco común: es capaz de ver cosas que otros no pueden ver, y también de adivinar los deseos y pensamientos de quienes la rodean. Cuando cumple catorce años, esa sensibilidad se agudiza y todo parece adquirir matices misteriosos. En una academia de pintura, Yuko está aprendiendo a asignar un color a cada estado de ánimo y emoción; Kyu, su profesor, mayor que ella, le enseña. Y, cierto día, sólo él verá, al igual que ella, cómo un extraño hombrecito verde emerge del tallo de una planta que hay en el aula. Así comienzan lo que serán unos meses cruciales para la joven adolescente, quien, suspendida entre lo real y lo imaginario, afronta el día a día y descubre poco a poco la agitación del corazón, la ternura de los sentimientos y las dificultades de convertirse en adulta.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA very unique teenager experiences her first love and discovers, through the turmoil of the heart, the challenges of becoming an adult.
"Yoshimoto's characters exert an absolute fascination over me ... Despite their misfortunes, they have an infinite capacity to savor the things in life that make it livable, and a strange dignity, impossible to break." Isabel Coixet, El Dominical
"Yoshimoto's prose relies on the quality of its transparency... An essential portrait of loneliness." Robert Saladrigas, Cultura/S (La Vanguardia)
"Yoshimoto describes like no one else those physical and emotional states so closely tied to silence." The New York Times Book Review
"Her literary achievements are already legendary." The Boston Globe
"A masterful storyteller." Chicago Tribune
Yuko has an uncommon sensitivity: she can see things others cannot, and even sense the desires and thoughts of those around her. When she turns fourteen, that sensitivity intensifies and everything seems to take on mysterious shades. At a painting academy, Yuko is learning to assign a color to each mood and emotion; Kyu, her teacher, older than her, guides her. And one day, only he will see, just as she does, how a strange little green man emerges from the stem of a plant in the classroom. Thus begin what will be crucial months for the young teenager, who, suspended between the real and the imaginary, faces daily life and gradually discovers the turmoil of the heart, the tenderness of feelings, and the challenges of becoming an adult.
Banana Yoshimoto (Tokio, 1964) Estudió literatura en la Universidad de Nihon. Con Kitchen, su primera novela, ganó el Newcomer Writers Prize en 1987, cuando todavía era una estudiante universitaria, y un año después se le concedía por la misma obra el Premio Literario Izumi Kyoka. Entre otros galardones, ha recibido en Italia el prestigioso Premio Scanno. Yoshimoto es ya autora de una dilatada pero exquisita obra compuesta de ensayos, novelas como N.P., Amrita, Tsugumi y El lago, y los libros de relatos Sueño profundo y Recuerdos de un callejón sin salida (finalista del Man Asian Literary Prize 2011). Desde 1991, año en que Tusquets Editores publicó Kitchen, Yoshimoto se ha convertido, junto con Haruki Murakami, en una de las voces más prestigiosas de la literatura japonesa actual.
Banana Yoshimoto (Tokyo, 1964) studied literature at Nihon University. With Kitchen, her first novel, she won the Newcomer Writers Prize in 1987 while still a university student, and a year later received the Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize for the same work. Among other awards, she has received Italy's prestigious Premio Scanno. Yoshimoto is the author of an extensive yet exquisite body of work composed of essays, novels such as N.P., Amrita, Tsugumi, and The Lake, as well as short story collections like Asleep and Dead-End Memories (finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011). Since 1991, the year Tusquets Editores published Kitchen, Yoshimoto has become, alongside Haruki Murakami, one of the most prestigious voices in contemporary Japanese literature.
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