In the midst of a four year relationship, Satsuki's boyfriend dies in a tragic car accident. Moonlight Shadow was also an unusual story about grief, set very far apart from the typical approach to such stories, but I'm not sure it worked anywhere near as well. Whilst Kitchen was really quite obscure, it still made perfect sense in its obscurity. I thought Moonlight Shadow failed to capture the same charm. I thought Banana Yoshimoto's portrayal of the nuances of grief was really thought provoking and original. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun." She keeps her personal life guarded, and reveals little about her certified Rolfing practitioner, Hiroyoshi Tahata and son (born in 2003). Whenever she appears in public she eschews make-up and dresses simply. During that time, she took the pseudonym "Banana" after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."ĭespite her success, Yoshimoto remains a down-to-earth and obscure figure.
She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in Literature. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)Īlong with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Banana Yoshimoto ( よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer.
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