by Banana Yoshimoto · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807701030
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«Sly» is the contemporary novel by Banana Yoshimoto, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (136 pages, in Italian).
In Tokyo, Kiyose recounts how the news that Takashi, a close friend and former lover, is HIV-positive shakes their intimate circle: Mimi, Takashi's partner, and Hideo, also a former lover, await their HIV test results. To escape the anguish, they fulfill an old dream: traveling together to Egypt, with Rome as the final stop.
Translation by Alessandro Giovanni Gerevini; work originally published in 1996; collection I canguri (number 103).
For readers of contemporary Japanese fiction and literary fiction with queer characters.
Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto . From 2002 to 2015, she wrote her name in hiragana.
