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050 00 $aPL865.O7138$bA4813 1994
082 00 $a895.6/35$221
100 1 $aYoshimoto, Banana,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88061527
240 10 $aAmurita.$lEnglish.$f1994
245 10 $aAmrita :$ba novel /$cBanana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Russell F. Wasden.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $a366 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aAmrita opens with the death of a celebrated young actress in mysterious and shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a kid brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiance who is writing a novel with uncanny parallels to the story he is living.
520 8 $aCaught between history and hope, these three survivors embark on a journey that takes them through grief and suffering, memories lost and regained, forbidden romance, redemption, and recovery in a confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a remote island in the Pacific, once the site of a fatal clash between Japanese and American forces.
650 0 $aFamilies$zJapan$vFiction.
650 0 $aGrief$zJapan$vFiction.
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106913
650 0 $aSpirits$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010114468
651 0 $aJapan$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105984
700 1 $aWasden, Russell F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97024427
852 00 $beal$hPL865.O7138$iA4813 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPL865.O7138$iA4813 1994