Tag: ハードボイルド／ハードラック

January 31, 2023

Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto

“I felt as if this place I had come to was nowhere. As if I no longer had a home to return to. That road I had been on didn’t lead anywhere, this trip would never end—it seemed to me as if next morning would never arrive.” Banana Yoshimoto is at her whimsical best in…
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