Hardboiled & Hard Luck

A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author of  Lizard , Amrita , and  Goodbye Tsugumi .   In cherished novels such as  Kitchen  and  Goodbye Tsugumi , Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and bestseller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In  Hardboiled , the unnamed narrator is h