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Translator
  
Michael Emmerich

Language
  
Published in English
  
2002

Originally published
  
20 March 1989

Illustrator
  
Yoko Yamamoto

Adaptations
  
Tugumi (1990)

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Country
  
Japan

Publication date
  
1989

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Publisher
  
Genres
  
Fiction, Novel

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Similar
  
Works by Banana Yoshimoto, Novels

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Goodbye Tsugumi (TUGUMI) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな)in 1989 and translated into English in 2002 by Michael Emmerich.

Contents

Goodbye Tsugumi was made into a movie in 1990, directed by Jun Ichikawa.

Plot

Tsugumi is a sickly but feisty and somewhat unpleasant young girl living in a small Japanese seaside town at the family inn with her parents, sister Yoko, aunt Masako, and cousin Maria (the protagonist). Following the divorce of Maria's father, Maria and Masako move to Tokyo to be with him, where Maria attends university. Shortly after the move, Maria receives a call from Tsugumi to say that the family are selling the inn. Maria returns to the town for one last summer to remember her childhood and reconcile her strained relationship with Tsugumi while she still can. But then they didn't realize the true display of true will.

Awards

  • 2nd Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize – March 1989
  • Publication details

    Goodbye Tsugumi (English edition) by Banana Yoshimoto

  • Hardcover - ISBN 0-8021-1638-8 published by Grove Press
  • Paperback - ISBN 0-8021-3991-4, published by Grove Press
  • A passage from this novel was published in the November 2009 SAT Reasoning Test.

    References

    Goodbye Tsugumi Wikipedia


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