The most fully realized, complex, and long of Banana's work, incorporating her familiar themes of family, love, and death. Cover blurb:

After losing her beautiful younger sister, a celebrated actress, to suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory to a head injury. Struggling to remember whom she loves and what she lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied at times by her dead sister's lover, at others by her clairvoyant kid brother. This is the story of Sakumi's remarkable expedition through grief, drams, and shadows to a place of transformation and the discovery of a soul.

Well this is the pure beauty of bookcrossing! I was so happy to receive this by post, and now I'm more than excited about the book itself. Thank you very much "sashafoo"!

Now it has been already some time that I finished this book, but somehow didn´t get to journal it. I have so far really enjoyed Banana Yoshimoto´s books, and read them quite fast - however, I had some trouble with Amrita. Something was bothering me all the time, there where too many unnecessary details, too many things started and never finished. Too many pages. Mostly I guess, for some reason, the main character didn´t raise any sympathy on me - I missed some depth where to loose myself for awhile at least.

Still the book kept me under it´s spell so much that I had to read it until the end. And as in all of her books, there was still something very strong about it, an atmosphere which kept even after finishing the book.

And finally it is time for Amrita to go on...

RELEASE NOTES:

As it came to me, this book is going as a RABCK to Finland now.

Received this today. Thank you!!!!!
I've read two other books by Yoshimoto. Let's see how I find this one :)

I finally started reading this and reach the middle of the book, and then, it just stayed on bookshelf and other books came, and the reading just stopped, never restarted again. This book was as many other Japanese books, pretty sad in atmosphere. One aspect seems to be always at least one suicide or the death that could be interpreted that way. I've kind of got over this kind of sadness and of my interest to this kind of stories. Some other Japanese books will start to find new readers soon as well. Thank you for sharing anyway.

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