#245
Title: N.P.
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Translator: Ann Sherif
Publisher: faber and faber
Year: 1990/1994
194 pages
An enjoyable short novel from Yoshimoto, focused on a set of interconnected relationships that includes live and dead people and interrelated manuscripts. The language is spare and elegant, the plot engaging. The idea that a manuscript can make people die brings to mind both the culling songs of Palahniuk's Lullaby and Monty Python's "Killer Joke." This element of the plot, which was the most interesting element to me, seemed not to reach its fullest potential. However, I still enjoyed the characters and situations.
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