![]() ![]() The novel’s dual protagonists are young, but they’re experienced beyond their years. It’s strikingly more mature than her earlier coming-of-age teenage dramas. Yoshimoto’s newest book, The Lake, is her best yet. ![]() ![]() George Saunders’ writing is sparse and off-beat, but Yoshimoto’s is simplistic and quirky? We’re better than this, aren’t we? Yoshimoto is Japan’s second most popular novelist, her books will make you laugh, think, suffer moments of nostalgia, and they’re serious. Banana Yoshimoto has always had to fight the stigma of lightness in her fiction, a stigma that has more to do with her youth and her name than it does with her prose. The problem with writing youthful love stories that are popular is that people will say you write youthful love stories that are popular. reviewed The Lake for The Independent and shares it with us here. Our Top Shelf pick this month is the novel The Lake by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich. It’s the first of June and our latest edition of The Independent is hot off the presses. ![]()
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