不伦与南美

by Banana Yoshimoto, 吉本芭娜娜, 李萍 (Translator)

吉本芭娜娜阿根廷之旅归来后的作品。首次以异国风情为利器，突破了她原有的淡雅风格 。小说里用布宜诺斯艾利斯街头的南美风情和感官刺激，催发7位旅行者一吐隐秘已久的 不伦之恋，还有那令人心头作痛的家族羁绊。南美这块奔放粗犷而又色彩鲜明的土地，在她的笔下，与时间的无声流逝有了微妙的对比。

167 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Banana Yoshimoto (よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子), a Japanese contemporary writer. She writes her name in hiragana. (See also 吉本芭娜娜 (Chinese).)

Along with having a famous father, poet Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana's sister, Haruno Yoiko, is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age.

She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in Literature. During that time, she took the pseudonym "Banana" after her love of banana flowers, a name she recognizes as both "cute" and "purposefully androgynous."

Despite her success, Yoshimoto remains a down-to-earth and obscure figure. Whenever she appears in public she eschews make-up and dresses simply. She keeps her personal life guarded, and reveals little about her certified Rolfing practitioner, Hiroyoshi Tahata and son (born in 2003). Instead, she talks about her writing. Each day she takes half an hour to write at her computer, and she says, "I tend to feel guilty because I write these stories almost for fun."