Banana Youshimoto's depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has
changed her country's literature and earned international acclaim.
In "Hardboiled & Hard Luck, she delivers two tales of resonant
grace, of young women coming to terms with change and heartbreak.
In "Hardboiled." the narrator is hiking in the mountains on an
anniversary she has forgotten about, the anniversary of the
ex-lover's death. As she nears her hotel, a sense of haunting falls
over her. That night she dreams of her ex-lover, and is visited by
a woman who may not exist--perhaps these eerie events will help her
make peace with her loss. "Hard Luck" is about a young woman whose
sister is dying and lies in a coma. Her fiance left her after the
accident, but his brother continues to visit, and as the two of
them make peace with the impending loss of their loved one, they
seem to find new hope for the future in their own new bond.
"Hardboiled & Hard Luck is small jewel of a book, a work of
resilient sweetness that will move readers deeply. "Book Page has
compared Yoshimoto to "Haruki Murakami and]. . . Anne Tyler for
her] spare and ethereal manner of wiriting and eye for the way to
which terrible experiences shape one's life, "but Yoshimoto's
voice, and deserved international stature, are most certainly her
own.
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