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- PEOPLE, Page 104Banana Mania
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- By GINIA BELLAFANTE/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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."
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