{"product_id":"goodbye-tsugumi","title":"Goodbye Tsugumi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eKITCHEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The voice of young Japan.' \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' \u003ci\u003eJAPAN TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' \u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Maria has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria is moving to Tokyo to go to university.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders love Banana Yoshimoto:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cb\u003e⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace'\u003cbr\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life's most brutal moments'\u003cbr\u003e ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I've ever read'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Goodbye Tsugumi","offer_id":46272400490693,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-571-21284-2.jpg?v=1779596246","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/goodbye-tsugumi","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}