バナタイム

by Banana Yoshimoto, よしもと ばなな

内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
将来への強大なエネルギーを感じとったプロポーズの瞬間から、新しい生命が宿るまで。人生最大のターニングポイントを迎えた著者の胸ときめく日々。幸福な場所、大好きなイタリアのこと、人間の気品と風格についてなど…。幸福の兆しを読みとることの大切さを伝える24章。奥深い考察と力溢れるメッセージ満載のエッセイ集。

著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)
よしもと ばなな
1964年東京都生まれ。「キッチン」で海燕新人賞を受け、デビュー。「TSUGUMI―つぐみ」で山本周五郎賞、「不倫と南米」でドゥマゴ文学賞を受賞(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)

157 pages

First published December 1, 2002

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."