so-so• Audible Originals audiobook
• Translated from Japanese
The main character, Sakumi, loses her beautiful younger sister, an actress, to suicide. Sakumi subsequently falls down a flight of stairs, losing her memory. She struggles to regain her memory with the assistance of her sister's lover and a clairvoyant kid brother.
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People are full of pain. When an imperfect person attempts to accept the imperfections of other people, the result is always painful, because individual storms that find their way into our hearts survive in different places. Sometimes we tend to focus on images that appear to be strangely alive.
It‘s our first night in our apartment. I‘m reading and watching cats go by. I haven‘t had much time to read lately, and I‘m waaaay behind on my reading goal. 😞
I‘m enjoying this book, but some of the writing is awkward. I‘m wondering if it‘s the translation? Probably.
I wouldn‘t call this a long book, but it‘s the longest Banana Yoshimoto Book I‘ve found. 📖
pickIch wusste bis kurz vor Schluss nicht, wie ich Amrita rezensieren sollte, mochte das Buch aber am Ende sehr. Ich habe etwas länger gebraucht um in den Rhythmus von Yoshimotos Geschichte zu kommen. Ich mochte die Charaktere, allen voran die Erzählerin Sakumi, aber habe auch das Gefühl, dass man ein gutes Drittel des Buches hätte kürzen können, Yoshimoto wiederholt sich ständig.
Dennoch, ich mochte Yoshimotos Weisheiten.
Zwei Drittel gelesen. So weit mag ich das Buch ganz gerne, auch wenn es nur langsam in die Gänge kommt. Aber immer wieder richtig schöne Sätze eingestreut.
#bananayoshimoto #amrita
Giving Banana Yoshimoto another chance. Some books from her I really liked, others I totally despised. We'll see into which category this one falls.
Amrita (Revised) | 
