Banana yoshimoto biography summary

Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto "favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities," as a critic for Publishers Weekly once explained.

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The author has become a worldwide phenomenon, with millions of fans falling in love with her novels and waiting eagerly for the next one--a circumstance referred to on the many Web pages dedicated to her as "Banana-mania. Yoshimoto was born Mahoko Yoshimoto in Tokyo in She chose to publish under the name Banana Yoshimoto, she explained in an interview posted at her Web site, "because I love banana flowers.