Amrita
By: Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Russell F. Wasden.
Contributors: Wasden, Russell F.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Family -- Japan -- Fiction; Grief -- Japan -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction; Spirits -- Fiction; Japan -- Fiction
Description: Amrita opens with the death of a celebrated young actress in mysterious and shocking circumstances. She leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a kid brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiance who is writing a novel with uncanny parallels to the story he is living.

Caught between history and hope, these three survivors embark on a journey that takes them through grief and suffering, memories lost and regained, forbidden romance, redemption, and recovery in a confrontation with the spirits of the dead on a remote island in the Pacific, once the site of a fatal clash between Japanese and American forces.