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Moshi Moshi

by Banana Yoshimoto - £14.99  Counterpoint (2017)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781640090156 | ISBN 10: 1640090150

In Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying — unsuccessfully — to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message to her through these dreams?
 
With the lightness of touch and surreal detachment that are the hallmarks of her writing, Banana Yoshimoto turns a potential tragedy into a poignant coming-of-age ghost story and a life-affirming homage to the healing powers of community, food, and family.
 
Published in Japanese, it has sold over 30,000 copies there so far. In Moshi Moshi, Banana’s narrator addresses the poignant question, how do you rebuild your life when your much-loved father loses his life in shocking circumstances?

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