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Language
  
Japanese

Published in English
  
2005

Originally published
  
1999

Publisher
  
Grove Press

Preceded by
  
Goodbye Tsugumi

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Translator
  
Michael Emmerich

Publication date
  
1999

Pages
  
160 pp

Author
  
Banana Yoshimoto

Country
  
Japan

Genres
  
Fiction, Novel

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Similar
  
Works by Banana Yoshimoto, Fiction books

Hardboiled & Hard Luck (ハードボイルド/ハードラック Alt: Hādoboirudo. English) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto in 1999 and translated into English in 2005 by Michael Emmerich.

Contents

Plot summary

This book consists of two separate stories, making up the two parts of the book's title. The first story, Hardboiled, is written from the perspective of a woman who is hiking alone, passes a strange shrine and ends up in a hotel with a couple of surreal incidents that follow. Her back story is filled in as a mixture of narrative and dream sequences. The second story, Hard Luck, is about a woman whose sister Kuni is in a coma. Kuni's fiancé leaves her after the incident, but his brother continues to visit. It becomes apparent that he is interested in the protagonist of the story.

Book information

Hardboiled & Hard Luck (English edition) by Banana Yoshimoto

  • Hardcover – ISBN 0-8021-1799-6, published by Grove Press
  • References

    Hardboiled & Hard Luck Wikipedia