This is a small collection of two short stories by the well-regarded Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto. The two stories were published together in 1999. The first story, “Hardboiled”, is a ghost story (but not like the other ghost story I read this weekend), in which a young woman goes walking in the woods in order to process her grief over losing an ex-lover. The concept of being “hardboiled” refers to being tough on the inside in dealing with the pain of loss. Through her grief, the woman is visited by the presence of this ex-lover as she walks through the […]
People are always going on about how scared they are of ghosts.
Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
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2/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 69 |
