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false <![CDATA[NP]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173407306m/284371.jpg 50158 14 <div>In <i>N.P., </i>Banana Yoshimoto’s enchanting novel of uncanny subtlety, style, magic, and mystery, a celebrated Japanese writer has committed suicide, leaving behind a collection of stories written in English.<i> </i>But the book, itself titled <i>N.P.</i>, may never be published in his native Japan: each translator who takes up the ninety-eighth story chooses death too—including Kazami Kano’s boyfriend, Shoji. Haunted by Shoji’s death, Kazami is inexorably drawn to three young people whose lives are intimately bound to the late writer and his work. Over the course of an astonishing summer, she will discover the truth behind the ninety-eighth story—and she will come to believe that “everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.”</div> 1096644 1990 N.P. total:1081|5:180|4:365|3:401|2:111|1:24| 1081 3809 1319 64 2 2 false false Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 10:42:57 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 12:01:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 14 08:15:10 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 08:15:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 26 22:36:57 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 22:37:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 17 13:31:42 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 13:31:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 06:14:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 07:31:14 -0700 2009
In any case, my INITIAL impressions of N.P. are thus:

I wonder...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Mar 09 21:14:20 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 22:06:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 18:00:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 15:24:34 -0800 2008 awful. College creative writing class awful, by which I mean trying really hard to be ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 22:29:34 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 22:34:27 -0700 2009
Some time has passed since I read this, and it has grown on me tremendously. I wouldn't consider it a favorite by any stretch, but the su...more...]]> 4 0 true false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 08:45:34 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 08:57:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:18:12 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 00:43:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 08:59:41 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 08:59:41 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 22:32:52 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 22:40:20 -0800 2009
Interesting enough to keep me engaged while I was reading it, but nothing great here. It never really made me care about the things it claimed were so important. ]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 21 11:10:03 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 11:11:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri May 02 21:23:11 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 00:57:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 01:13:55 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 01:17:16 -0800 2008
This book is easily my favorite out of all seven Banana books (I have yet to read Amrita, but so far I adore Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi).

The main character, the narrator Kazami is an ordin...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Mar 16 10:34:44 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 10:34:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 22:47:47 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 22:50:32 -0800 2008 1 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 05:21:59 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 16:59:06 -0700 2008
Although not my favorite book by one of my...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 10:22:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 10:23:58 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 10:48:57 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 10:04:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=284371