366 pages
English language
Published Dec. 27, 1997 by Grove Press.
Amrita
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses mystical powers; and a fiancé who is writing a novel with uncanny parallels to his own story.
Subjects
- Family -- Japan -- Fiction
- Grief -- Japan -- Fiction
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Spirits -- Fiction
- Japan -- Fiction