home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=92TT2545>
- <title>
- Nov. 16, 1992: Banana Mania
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 16, 1992 Election Special: Mandate for Change
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 104
- Banana Mania
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> Thimk of her as Japan's own Tama Janowitz. At 28, BANANA
- YOSHIMOTO has become one of Tokyo's trendiest writers, spinning
- offbeat tales with a zany, blunt wit. Later this month her most
- popular novel, Kitchen (Grove), arrives Stateside. The story?
- Sad girl mourning the loss of her grandmother meets lonely boy
- whose father has had a sex change. The book sold close to 2
- million copies in Japan, became a film and wound up translated
- into two languages. No media hound, Yoshimoto refuses TV
- appearances and avoids print interviews. The result: "Nobody
- recognizes me on the train."
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-