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rifkautami's review
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
ach1707's review
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.25
lah123's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
snaillydia's review
4.0
Grief, quiet and unmatchable tenderness color this beautiful collection by Banana Yoshimoto. Her writing is so casual, simple, and out of nowhere it will hit you with the most gutwrenching, personal passage you've ever read.
"The reverberations of that voice wondered sweetly, working like a massage on the area of my heart that was the most likely clenched, helping those knots to loosen. It was like the rush of waves, and like the laughter of people I'd met in all kinds of places, people I'd become friendly with and then separated from, and like the kind words all those people had said to me, and like the mewing of a cat I had lost, and like the mixture of noises that rang in the background in a place that was dear to me, a place far away, a place that no longer existed, and like the rushing of trees that whiskered past my ears as I breathed in the scent of fresh greenery on a trip someplace…he voice was like a combination of all of this."
"The reverberations of that voice wondered sweetly, working like a massage on the area of my heart that was the most likely clenched, helping those knots to loosen. It was like the rush of waves, and like the laughter of people I'd met in all kinds of places, people I'd become friendly with and then separated from, and like the kind words all those people had said to me, and like the mewing of a cat I had lost, and like the mixture of noises that rang in the background in a place that was dear to me, a place far away, a place that no longer existed, and like the rushing of trees that whiskered past my ears as I breathed in the scent of fresh greenery on a trip someplace…he voice was like a combination of all of this."
mimitheworst's review against another edition
4.0
Un libro bastante entretenido, con un tipo de escritura distinto al que estoy acostumbrada. En especial de las tres historias, la primera y tercera denotan los sentimientos no resueltos de las protagonistas hacia las dos mujeres que ya no se encuentran, admitiendo algunas verdades disonantes que habrían intentado enterrar durante años, pero con la muerte habrían resurgido de nuevo. La segunda historia me dejó con ganas de saber más sobre la familia, la relación que había entre Sarah y Yoshihito y Marie... Pero por lo demás, un libro bastante ligero, que te hace ver cómo cada protagonista lidia con el duelo de esa persona que dejó huella en su vida; incluso después de años sin saber nada de ella.