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Banana yoshimoto book5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They make the narrator “uneasy,” she says: “Ghosts probably lived in ghost time - time that flowed in its own strange way, somewhere completely removed from our own. The ghosts go about their mundane lives, seemingly unaware that they are ghosts. In “House of Ghosts,” a young woman encounters, well, ghosts of an elderly couple in the soon-to-be-demolished apartment of her new lover. At the center of each is a woman negotiating the quiet fallout of personal history. The five stories in Banana Yoshimoto’s collection “Dead-End Memories” - first published in Japan in 2003, it is her 11th book to be translated into English - are strange, melancholy and beautiful. DEAD-END MEMORIES: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda ![]()
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