# The Premonition - Hardcover

by **Banana Yoshimoto** (Author), **Asa Yoneda** (Translator)

**The internationally beloved author of _Kitchen_ and _Dead-End Memories_ returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth**

Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost as though asleep. When she is not working, Yukino spends all day in her pajamas, clipping her nails and trimming her split ends. She eats only when she feels like it, and she often falls asleep lying on her side in the hallway. She sometimes wakes Yayoi at 2:00 a.m to be her drinking companion, sometimes serves flan in a huge mixing bowl for dinner, and watches _Friday the 13th_ over and over to comfort herself. A child study desk, old stuffed animals--things Yukino wants to forget--are piled up in her backyard like a graveyard of her memories.

An instant bestseller in Japan when first published in 1988, _The Premonition_ is finally available in English, translated by the celebrated Asa Yoneda.

### Author Biography

**BANANA YOSHIMOTO** is the author of the international bestseller Kitchen. She has published ten books in English translation, including _Goodbye Tsugumi_, _Moshi Moshi_, and most recently, _Dead-End Memories_. Her work has been translated and published in more than thirty countries. In Italy, she won the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, the Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Maschera d'Argento Prize in 1999, and the Capri Award in 2011. She lives in Tokyo.

**ASA YONEDA** is the translator of Banana Yoshimoto's _Dead-End Memories_ and _Moshi Moshi_, as well as _Idol, Burning_ by Rin Usami and _The Lonesome Bodybuilder_ by Yukiko Motoya.

**Number of Pages:** 144

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN

**Publication Date:** October 10, 2023

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