Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto deals with memory just out of reach.
What We Say: “In this gentle, beautiful and minimal novel, Banana Yoshimoto captures living between two worlds. In The Premonition Yayoi is deliberating between her past and present. She has fallen into a melancholy mood, feeling that there is something essential she has forgotten from her childhood. In a search for the truth, she moves in with her eccentric aunt, Yuniko. This novel is a reflection on family and memory, and the taboo relationship at its centre will unsettle and provoke ethical deliberation. ”
What They Say: “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
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