{"id":11606,"date":"2011-04-01T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2014-05-17T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T20:47:10","slug":"the-lake-by-banana-yoshimoto-translated-by-michael-emmerich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-lake-by-banana-yoshimoto-translated-by-michael-emmerich\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/04\/Lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28289\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/04\/Lake.jpg\" alt=\"Lake\" width=\"882\" height=\"1313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/04\/Lake.jpg 882w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/04\/Lake-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/04\/Lake-800x1190.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/a>Balanced with deft reminders of impermanence \u2013from vivid dreams and outdoor art to once-a-year cherry blossoms and death \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoshimotobanana.com\/index_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Banana\u00a0Yoshimoto<\/a>\u2019s latest is a love story with a higher-than-usual satisfying-sigh factor. Chihiro, an artist, and Nakajima, a graduate student in genetics, finally meet after watching and waving to each other from their respective apartment windows across a Tokyo street. They\u2019re both unconventional and seemingly untethered souls; they\u2019ve both lost their beloved mothers. They meander into a sweet, simple life together, although past secrets involving a mysterious brother and sister who live by an ethereal lake threaten to create an emotional divide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Yoshimoto aficionados who have savored any of the dozen-plus novels she\u2019s written over the last three decades since she became a near-instant pop literary phenomenon with <em>Kitchen <\/em>will recognize her signature crisp, clipped style (thanks to exacting translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~sf\/current\/emmerich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Emmerich<\/a>\u2019s constancy) and revel in her latest cast of quirky characters. Newbies with a penchant for Haruki Murakami\u2019s mind-bending protagonists or Yoko Tawada\u2019s sparse precision will do well to begin their so-called Bananamania with this beguiling title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/lj\/reviewsbook\/889528-421\/fiction_reviews_april_1_2011.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, April 1, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balanced with deft reminders of impermanence \u2013from vivid dreams and outdoor art to once-a-year cherry blossoms and death \u2013 Banana\u00a0Yoshimoto\u2019s latest is a love story with a higher-than-usual satisfying-sigh factor. Chihiro, an artist, and Nakajima, a graduate student in genetics, finally meet after watching and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,76,66],"tags":[1919,6608,75,168,1920,13,129,39],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-translation","tag-banana-yoshimoto","tag-bookdragon","tag-death","tag-kidnapping","tag-lake","tag-love","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-lake-by-banana-yoshimoto-translated-by-michael-emmerich\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Michael Emmerich - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Balanced with deft reminders of impermanence \u2013from vivid dreams and outdoor art to once-a-year cherry blossoms and death \u2013 Banana\u00a0Yoshimoto\u2019s latest is a love story with a higher-than-usual satisfying-sigh factor. 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