Goodbye Tsugumi - Tsugumi

Banana Yoshimoto

Faber and Faber UK

2003

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-10: 0571212840

An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, 'Goodbye Tsugumi' is an enchanting novel from one of Japan's finest writers. Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her an international sensation. Now she returns with a magical, offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a 'normal' family. 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. She also has to confront both Tsugumi's inner strength and the real possibility of losing her.

Resenhas (7)

5 (Perfeito)

Maria

Apesar de o título do livro ser sobre a tsugumi, eu acabei me identificando muito mais com a narradora, maria, e a experiência dela mudando de um lugar que ela viveu a vida inteira para uma cidade grande. o medo de esquecer de tudo, de todos, e de se adaptar em um ambiente completamente novo. mas sobre a tsugumi, meu capítulo favorito foi da carta dela e como ela realmente, pela primeira vez na vida, se deixou ficar completamente vulnerável e admitir que não era tão forte quanto parecia. eu respeito muito a tsugumi e o quão forte ela é. mesmo quase desistindo de tudo, mesmo tendo o corpo tão frágil, ela ainda persistiu mais um pouco.

“We see all kinds of different things as we grow up. And with each instant that passes we change into something new. We keep moving forward, and as we move we keep being confronted by this fact, over and over again, in many different ways. But if there were one thing that I wanted to hold on to even with this knowledge, to retain just as it was, it would be this evening. ”