Kazumi Yumoto, Author, Cathy Hirano, Translator , trans. by Cathy Hirano. Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.50 (165p) ISBN 978-0-440-23822-5
A six-year-old Japanese girl loses her father suddenly and moves to a tiny apartment in the suburbs. She finds solace in her elderly landlady and in writing letters to her father. "The author of The Friends
once again addresses the subject of...
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Kazumi Yumoto, Author, Cathy Hirano, Translator Yearling Books $4.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-440-41446-9
This novel features three 12-year-old boys in Japan who find friendship through their mutual fascination with death. In a starred review, PW called this ""an eloquent initiation story that first touches and then pierces the heart."" Ages 10-up. (May)
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Kazumi Yumoto, Author, Cathy Hirano, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-32460-5
In an eloquent initiation story that first touches and then pierces the heart, Japanese first-novelist Yumoto introduces three irresistible 12-year-old boys, whose fascination with death leads to an unexpected friendship. Chubby Yamashita, ""four-eye
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Kazumi Yumoto, Author, Cathy Hirano, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-37153-1
After expressing how death affects a child in her acclaimed first novel, The Friends, Yumoto offers a different variation on the theme, in this sensitively wrought story. Her language, musically translated once again by Hirano, is quiet yet...
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Kazumi Yumoto, Author, Cathy Hirano, Translator, Yumoto Kazumi, Author , trans. by Cathy Hirano. FSG $16 (176p) ISBN 978-0-374-34383-5
The author of The Friend
once again addresses the subject of death with extraordinary grace and dignity. Her book, which begins and ends from an adult point of view, traces a Japanese woman's backward journey to a painful time in her life, the...
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Kazumi Yumoto, trans. from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano, illus. by Komako Sakai. Gecko, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-877467-70-7
When Bear’s friend, a little bird, dies suddenly, Bear is bereft. He makes a berry-stained, flower-lined box and tucks the bird inside, where “his tiny black beak gleamed like onyx.” Bear’s carrying the box with him soon disturbs the other animals: “
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