![]() ![]() ![]() Characters inexplicably amble on to explain their life stories, or retreat offstage only to appear in telephone calls, letters, and the protagonist's tiresome dreams. The never-ending cycle of daily life plods a dreary and indeed seemingly random course over 366 pages of bars, bread shops and flats. I want to express the idea that regardless of all the amazing events that happen to each of us, there will always be the never-ending cycle of daily life." And there we have it. Moshi Moshi, the title of Banana Yoshimoto’s latest novel, refers to the phone that the main character’s father left at home before leaving to commit suicide with his paramour. Thank heavens for tatami mats, bamboo blinds and the smell of cooking prawns, because without such automatic triggers, devoid of the rubber stamp of coolness currently bestowed by all things Japanese, Amrita would seem banal for a western audience, to the point of mystification.Īs the author writes in her Afterword, "Now as I read over this novel I realise how naive it is. ![]() If Amrita was set in Surrey, no one would give a damn. ![]()
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