{"product_id":"the-premonition-isbn-9781640093713","title":"The Premonition","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PEN Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe internationally beloved author of \u003ci\u003eKitchen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDead-End Memories\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one understands her aunt’s unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost as though asleep. When she is not working, Yukino spends all day in her pajamas, clipping her nails and trimming her split ends. She eats only when she feels like it, and she often falls asleep lying on her side in the hallway. She sometimes wakes Yayoi at 2:00 a.m to be her drinking companion, sometimes serves flan in a huge mixing bowl for dinner, and watches \u003ci\u003eFriday the 13th \u003c\/i\u003eover and over to comfort herself. A child study desk, old stuffed animals—things Yukino wants to forget—are piled up in her backyard like a graveyard of her memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn instant bestseller in Japan when first published in 1988, \u003ci\u003eThe Premonition\u003c\/i\u003e is finally available in English, translated by the celebrated Asa Yoneda.\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the PEN Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, A Must Read Book for Fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTokyo Weekender\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Title\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Fans of \u003ci\u003eKitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1988 debut that turned Yoshimoto into a sensation, will delight in Asa Yoneda’s translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Premonition\u003c\/i\u003e. [. . .] Luscious . . . Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.\" —Maya Binya, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Casts a delicate spell . . . Between Yoshimoto and her translator, Asa Yoneda, there is something otherworldly . . . The novel taps into anxiety about memory, childhood and the peculiar feeling that there’s a hidden truth about ourselves we’ve forgotten, and if only we took pains to find it we might finally feel at home.\" —Genevieve Gaunt, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yoshimoto has always had this extraordinary ability to convey the ephemeral natures of her main characters in plain yet diaphanous language: ‘she harboured something vast, lost, and familiar, and it was like a siren call to those of us who were missing parts of our childhoods. It was something deeper than night, longer than eternity, out of reach.’ Yoshimoto’s writing could be described the same way.\" —Fi Churchman, \u003ci\u003eArtReview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Premonition\u003c\/i\u003e is a quick but effective read about allowing the secrets of the past to create a walkway into a truthful new future.\" —Jana Siciliano, \u003ci\u003eBookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yoshimoto packs a lot of detail and intrigue in this spare novel . . . A bestseller over three decades ago, readers familiar with Yoshimoto’s work will not want to miss this one. It is a welcomed addition to her oeuvre for English reading audiences and definitely worth the wait.\" —Shirley Quan,\u003ci\u003e Library Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of Japan’s most beloved contemporary authors . . . Yoshimoto infuses the familiar coming-of-age experience (leaving home, separation from parents) with (of course) unusual twists.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yoshimoto builds a satisfying narrative of a young girl figuring out who she is, and how her family may be more than she realized. While much of the plot hinges on Yayoi’s preternatural intuitions, each step is carefully plotted to slowly unearth the secrets of the past. No word is misspent in Yoshimoto’s taut tale.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The women in Yoshimoto’s short stories and novels often have an aura of loneliness around them, an acknowledgment that what they are going through in this world, they are going through on their own. And yet, there is also an acceptance of this truth, and an accompanying resilience that makes them compelling—and that compels them forward in their lives, as they seek out answers, in order to live honestly, on their own terms, in their own truth.\" —Kristin Iversen\u003cb\u003eBANANA YOSHIMOTO\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the international bestseller Kitchen. She has published ten books in English translation, including \u003ci\u003eGoodbye Tsugumi\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Moshi Moshi\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eDead-End Memories\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been translated and published in more than thirty countries. In Italy, she won the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, the Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Maschera d’Argento Prize in 1999, and the Capri Award in 2011. She lives in Tokyo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASA YONEDA\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of Banana Yoshimoto's \u003ci\u003eDead-End Memories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoshi Moshi\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eIdol, Burning\u003c\/i\u003e by Rin Usami and \u003ci\u003eThe Lonesome Bodybuilder\u003c\/i\u003e by Yukiko Motoya.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302304534757,"sku":"NP9781640093713","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640093713.jpg?v=1767741054","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-premonition-isbn-9781640093713","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}