N.P.
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time a new translator takes up the task, death gets in the way.N.P. is an extraordinarily powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it,….Read More
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