Kazami, joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea a un libro de cuentos titulado N.P. Su autor, Tekase, que escribia en ingles, paso gran parte de su vida en Estados unidos y se suicido a los cuarenta y ocho anos, dejando dos hijos. Cuando Kazami conoce a estos, detecta de inmediato una estela de locura en los ojos de esos hermanos tiernamente incestuosos. Pero otra muchacha obsesionada por ese mismo libro se cruzara en el camino de Kazami. / A Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind stories written in English, N.P. A translator, Kazami, is drawn to three people whose lives are bound to the late writer and his work. Soon she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story, and she will come to believe that everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful enough to make you crazy.

Product Description: “Entering Banana Yoshimoto’s fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo—everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner. . . . Amrita is difficult to forget.” —San Francisco ChronicleBanana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status, as well as a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature...read more

Product Description: “Entering Banana Yoshimoto’s fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo—everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner. . . . Amrita is difficult to forget.” —San Francisco ChronicleBanana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status, as well as a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature...read more

Since the first description of Hashimoto disease appeared in 1912, understanding of the disease has greatly altered. The aim of this volume is to describe the latest concepts of immunogenetics, clinical aspects and cellular and humoral autoimmunity of Hashimoto disease. The volume focuses on the definition, criteria, classification, diagnosis and etiology of the disease.

Product Description: Cinco personajes que, tras vivir momentos dolorosos, se preguntan sobre el sentido de la vida, y sobre la posibilidad de ser felices, vertebran los cinco relatos que componen este volumen. Si, en «La casa de los fantasmas», dos companeros de universidad traban una intensa amistad que tras una larga separacion se convertira en un amor profundo, el segundo relato, «¡Mamaaa!», narra la historia de una joven que trabaja en una editorial y que, tras un incidente, tardara en recuperar la fe en las relaciones humanas...read more

Product Description: Tres jóvenes que atraviesan un periodo difícil de su vida son las protagonistas de este bellísimo volumen de la escritora japonesa Banana Yoshimoto. «Sueño profundo», «Los viajeros de la noche» y «Una experiencia», los tres relatos que componen el libro, exploran a través de esas jóvenes los mundos que se abren cuando todo parece desmoronarse y sólo queda el vacío, mundos poblados por sombras que de pronto se hacen presentes en la vida de cada día...read more

Product Description: Maria Shirakawa, la narradora de esta delicada historia, tiene que marcharse a Tokio, en cuya universidad va a estudiar. Deja atrás el hostal Yamamoto, un lugar idílico frente al mar en la península de Izu, donde ha crecido junto a su madre...read more

The author of Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi offers two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma. Reprint.

Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan

Product Description: Tres jóvenes que atraviesan un periodo difícil de su vida son las protagonistas de este bellísimo volumen de la escritora japonesa Banana Yoshimoto. «Sueño profundo», «Los viajeros de la noche» y «Una experiencia», los tres relatos que componen el libro, exploran a través de esas jóvenes los mundos que se abren cuando todo parece desmoronarse y sólo queda el vacío, mundos poblados por sombras que de pronto se hacen presentes en la vida de cada día...read more

Having grown up by the sea alongside her charismatic invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters an entirely different world of university enrollment and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: Kazami, una joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea al libro de cuentos, titulado N.P., de un escritor japones, Sarao Takase, que escribia en ingles, vivio gran parte de su vida en Estados Unidos y se suicido a los cuarenta y ocho anos, dejando dos hijos, Saki y Otohiko...read more

Three extraordinary novellas narrate the individual stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep--a sleepwalker mourning a lost love, a woman unable to remain awake who is involved in an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, and a woman whose dreams are haunted by a woman she once confronted in a love triangle. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

In the wake of a celebrated Japanese author's suicide, the publication of his final collection of stories, written in English, becomes thwarted when its translators also decide to kill themselves after reading it. Reprint.