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Banana Yoshimoto

Moshi-Moshi

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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshies 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 2010 in Japanese in Tokyo, it has sold over 29,000 copies there so far. “In Moshi-Moshi, Bananas 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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213 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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    Some things are rewarding enough and meaningful enough that as humans, we choose to do them even if in purely financial terms it would be more profitable not to. My sense is that as long as we have bodies, our basic human desires will remain more or less the same.
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    sometimes love meant not being able to tell. And that it inevitably involved the question of trusting myself to tell sometime, when I could.
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    People could kill each other, but people could save each other, too.

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