NP (novel)

NP
First edition (Japanese)
Author Banana Yoshimoto
Translator Ann Sherif
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Publisher Kadokawa Shoten
Publication date
 1990
Published in English
 1994
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 194 pp
ISBN 0-8021-1545-4
OCLC 29255351
895.6/35 20
LC Class PL865.O7138 N713 1994

NP （Ｎ・Ｐ) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな）in 1990 and translated into English in 1994 by Ann Sherif.

Plot summary

"NP" is both the name of the novel and of a short story collection within the novel's plot, a collection written in English by the character Sarao Takase, who committed suicide before he could translate it into Japanese. Three more people attempting to translate the collection have also committed suicide. The novel is narrated by Kazami Kano, the girlfriend of the last translator to die. Kazami becomes interested in Sarao's children while she is also trying to translate NP into Japanese.[1][2][3]


Book information

NP (English edition) by Banana Yoshimoto

  • Hardcover - ISBN 0-8021-1545-4, published by Grove Press
  • Paperback - ISBN 0-671-89826-4, published by Washington Square Press

References

  1. ↑ Grimson, Todd (March 27, 1994). "Yes, Let's Have More Bananas : NP, By Banana Yoshimoto (Grove/Atlantic: $18; 194 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto, Author Grove/Atlantic $18 (194p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1545-4". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Gattig, Nicholas (October 10, 2015). "Banana Yoshimoto sprinkles perversion and melodrama over '90s Tokyo in 'N.P.'". The Japan Times. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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