Banana Yoshimoto is the author of the international bestseller KITCHEN. She has published 11 books in English translation, including GOODBYE TSUGUMI, MOSHI MOSHI, DEAD-END MEMORIES and, most recently, THE PREMONITION. Her work has been translated and published in more than 30 countries. In Italy, she won the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, the Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Maschera d’Argento Prize in 1999, and the Capri Award in 2011. She lives in Tokyo.

Books by Banana Yoshimoto

Amrita

by Banana Yoshimoto

After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied at times by her dead sister's lover, at others by her clairvoyant kid brother. This is the story of Sakumi's remarkable expedition through grief, dreams, and shadows to a place of transformation and the discovery of a soul.