Banana

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Banana has unparalleled skill in transforming ordinary scenes into magical moments. This book works as a healer to those who have lost their dear ones to death. A powerful combination of loss, death, love, and hope, this novel is a poetic delve. One might describe Tsugumi as afrail, sharp-tongued girl because of her horrid attitude, and profanities but behind all this insolence is a strong, fearless human being. You could read Jane Eyre and (some people might) enjoy it just as a book but when you study it for GCSE you are bored to tears (in my case) trying to work out what the author was thinking of when she was describing a picture on the wall and what it was supposed to symbolise. personally I am still adamant it wasn't supposed to symbolise anything but my teacher didn't agree. So being read and understood but at 2 very different levels. Dan Koeppel’s Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World has incredible detail on the history and science of the banana but has significant issues with fluidity and focus.

Banana has crafted this novel in beautiful poetic diction. A novel that is lighter on the plot but the beautiful description of the scenery; the warm summer sea, sweltering ocean, scenic little fishing town, and refreshing weather gives the novel an ethereal quality.Thank you @legendpress for sending me a copy of The Life of a Banana to read and review! Although I am quite a bit older than the intended audience for this book (I imagine), I still got a lot from it and think it’s a really good book to be promoting to a YA audience - if you have kids aged 11-15 then I think they could learn a lot from it (there is obviously bad language and racial slurs used but it’s important!) I was at a book launch, in a book shop, last week and while waiting for the author to appear I scanned the bookshelves and spotted this. Wong has created a real barnstormer of a novel that deserves to be on several of the awards list. It’s definitely getting a place in my Top Ten.' If These Books Could Talk

It's absolutely wild how much pain and destruction a couple of fruit companies have caused on this earth. And how much financial and political power they have wielded in the United States and continue to wield. well looking at the info they give out themselves blue bananas are key stage 2 and red bananas key stage 3. SO that would imply that blue will span turquoise and purple and red would span gold and white if I understand it right. That would make sense looking at the ones we have. The Life of a Banana tells the story of Xing Li, a British born Chinese girl. The story begins with the tragic death of her mother, meaning Xing and her brother are forced to live with their super rich and super strict grandmother. They've never had much of a relationship with her and they're dreading going to live with her and their aunt and uncle. Deeply insightful… Tragedy and trauma are juxtaposed with a jokey colloquialism.’ Bare Fiction Magazine How about the notion that the banana was the fruit referred to in ancient texts about the Garden of Eden. The climate in the Fertile Crescent was not conducive to apples. And there is some softness in the translations of ancient writings. The forbidden fruit was called a fig, which is also what the banana was called. And really, doesn’t it seem a more fitting shape for the job? Which makes it all the more ironic that bananas are essentially asexual. They do not breed. The fruit we eat today came from cloned plants. Mass-consumption bananas has always come from plants that do not propagate themselves, but require man’s intervention.

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Whereas Maria tries to adjust to her new hometown and university life, Tsugumi ceaselessly flows with the wind of the sea with no care for the world. Grandma's speech. Grandma speaks in broken English. At first, I thought it was because English isn't her native language, but then it's mentioned that she has "tons of brains", and (slight spoiler alert), she has friends who speak excellent English and write in said English with her. And I believe that friend and her grew up together, so why would one have good, standard English, and the other not? Please don't tell me it's just to emphasise the "foreignness", because it doesn't even read like Singapore-accented English to me. Like, even the old ah ma's in Singapore speak better English (those who can speak English, that is). As soon as Chihiro starts to feel harmony in her life, she is forced to make a difficult choice. Either she must leave Chihiro and never return or stay committed and solve the haunted mystery of Nakajima’s life.

Life is merciless and unpredictable. But it gives a chance to everyone to be happy if they stay committed to the path. The lake is the story of Chihiro, a muralist who had an unconventional childhood and had to bear the loss of her mother’s recent death.

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This was, however, a little jarring at times as the narrative voice wasn’t consistent the whole way through. Most passages are from Xing’s perspective, obvious because of the misspellings of things she hears. But some are in the third person and in a much more adult voice. It was a little confusing at times. And this idea of British born Chinese - and the prejudices and difficulties of fitting in, faced as a result of the culture clash, is at the heart of the novel and its very title. Hoping to get over her terrible past, she gives life a second chance. Their acquaintance begins with silent, unspoken conversations, sweet smiles, and gestures. A sweet love connection forms between them and finally they start to live together. It is likely that sitting in a bowl on your kitchen table or sideboard is the fruit of the largest herb in the world - a banana.