By Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto's novels of younger lifestyles in Japan have made her a world sensation. see you later Tsugumi is an offbeat tale of a deep and intricate friendship among lady cousins that ranks between her most sensible paintings. Maria is the single daughter of an single lady. She has grown up on the beach along her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and infrequently merciless. Now Maria's father is ultimately capable of deliver Maria and her mom to Tokyo, ushering Maria right into a global of collage, coming near near maturity, and a "normal" relations. while Tsugumi invitations Maria to spend a final summer time by means of the ocean, a restful idyll turns into a time of dramatic development as Tsugumi reveals love and Maria learns the real that means of domestic and family members. She additionally has to confront either Tsugumi's internal energy and the true danger of wasting her. so long Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of many world's best younger writers.
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I'm tired today, so we're only going as far as the beach," she said. " I asked, surprised. It didn't seem like the kind of thing Tsugumi was really healthy enough to be doing. "As if I have any choice! Hell, you're the one who got the dumb mutt used to these walks. After you left he started mak ing this unbelievable noise every morning, a whine like you can't imagine, right at the time when you used to take him out. Little Tsugumi with her delicate health was constantly getting woken up by this, you realize.
He put them down on the table. " "I'm confused. " I asked, puzzled. "Someone from another company came in today and he brought a box of these along as a little present," explained my H BANANA Y O S H I M OT O father. " I had one and i t was s o delicious that, well, you know, I kind of snuck these out for the two of you. " The man wasn't even blushing. "God, Dad, didn't anyone catch on? You're like a little boy with a dog hidden behind the house or something," I said, laugh ing. I mean, picture a grown man waiting around until the coast is clear so that he can slip two senbei into his briefcase and take them home!
The sea opened into view on the other side of the bridge, and the river flowed quietly into it. The light of the moon and the streetlamps shone brightly on the water and the railings of the bridge. " Her gaze was directed down under the bridge. The bank around its base had been hardened with cement, but in the little patch of dirt that still remained, a clump of white flowers was in full bloom, swaying lightly back and forth in the night wind. " I said. The whiteness of the flowers seemed to levitate in the dark.