Recognized surrealist among Japanese writers. Banana Yoshimoto knows how to create a mystical effect like no other. This book is two studies of the concepts of “love”, “memory” and “grief”.

Freud describes the uncanny as a special feeling that arises when the explainable is intertwined with the inexplicable . Banana Yoshimoto, a recognized surrealist among Japanese writers, knows how to create a mystical effect like no other. Her latest book is two explorations of the concepts of "love", "memory" and "grief". If in the first novel the heroine comes to the realization that her relationship were nothing more than filling an empty space in someone else’s soul, then in the second reality reconciles the heroine with the death of her sister.