{"product_id":"9780571382309","title":"The Premonition","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Banana Yoshimoto\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 12 October 2023 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e216 x 136 x 12mm | 166g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' Daily Mail'Reading Banana Yoshimoto is like taking a bracing, cleansing bath.' LING MA'Gorgeous . . . an invitation to explore [Yoshimoto's] unusual, alluring world.' The TelegraphI had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeciding to take a break, she stays with her eccentric but beloved aunt Yukino. Living a life without order, Yukino seems to be protecting herself, but beneath this facade Yayoi starts to recover lost memories, and everything she knows about her past threatens to change forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'A sure and lyrical writer . . . Yoshimoto transforms the trite into the essential.' The New Yorker'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banana Yoshimoto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261393318213,"sku":"9780571382309","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780571382309.jpg?v=1763038596","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780571382309","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}