Banana Yoshimoto

Goodbye Tsugumi

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In this “witty, perceptive novel”, a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood (Elle).
Banana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria’s father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a “normal” family. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family. She also has to confront both Tsugumi’s inner strength and the real possibility of losing her. Goodbye Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of the world’s finest young writers.
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190 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Kandi Tolentinoshared an impression3 years ago
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    i love how simple and honest the conversations were and how it makes me miss my family and loved ones more

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  • Kandi Tolentinohas quoted3 years ago
    Sooner or later people are definitely going to give up if you don’t give them back as much as they’re giving you
  • Natalija Kuznecovhas quoted5 months ago
    Over the past few days I’ve written you a hell of a lot of letters. I’d write one and then tear it up and then start writing again. I don’t know why it has to be you, of all people. But for some reason I can’t help thinking that of all the people around me, only you can really read the meanings of the words I use, and understand what I’m saying.
  • Natalija Kuznecovhas quoted5 months ago
    For me the summer had been the concentrated essence of everything in the past that I loved and missed.

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