FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN
'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' DAILY MAIL
'Exquisite.' MARIE CLAIRE
'A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Casts a delicate spell.' SPECTATOR
'Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW
I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide . . . It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.
Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN
'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' DAILY MAIL
'Exquisite.' MARIE CLAIRE
'A timely invitation to explore her unusual, alluring world.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Casts a delicate spell.' SPECTATOR
'Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention.' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW
I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide . . . It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.
Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.