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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 0671880187
Release Date: Jan 2, 1994
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The volume comprises two works of fiction, the title novella and a short story. "Both 'Kitchen' and 'Moonlight Shadow', each narrated by young women, are about loss. In the longer story, Mikage, the female narrator, moves into the house of Yuichi and his mother/father {a transsexual} after the death of her grandmother; in the second, the girl has lost a boyfriend in a car crash, and is granted a vision of her beloved by a mysterious lady on a bridge." (Times Lit Suppl)
| | | | From The Publisher
When Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1988, "Banana-mania" seized the country. Kitchen won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the best-seller list, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. With the appearance of the critically acclaimed Tugumi (1989) and NP (1991), the Japanese literary world realized that in Banana Yoshimoto it was confronted not with a passing fluke but with a full-fledged phenomenon: a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Told in a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, "Kitchen" and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a masterful storyteller. They are the work of a very special new writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.
| | | | Annotation
A lyrical tale about loss and grief and familial love. When college student Mikage Sakurai is orphaned by the death of her grandmother, she is rescued from loneliness and grief by Yuichi, a young flower shop delivery man, and discovers that families come in many shapes . . . and can be found in many places.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
A cup of tea and a warm couch.
-- A reviewer, March 14, 2001
Shoadows in the Kitchen
-- Boo, a student., May 5, 2000
Also Recommended: Monkey Brain Sushi (Contemporary japanese Writers)
Comforting
-- Brittany, a student, January 2, 2002
Also Recommended: 'White Oleander' by Janet Fitch; 'N.P.' also by Banana Yoshimoto; 'Tuesdays with Morrie' by Mitch Albom
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A bestseller in Japan, where it won two prestigious literary prizes, Kitchen is a daringly original yet deeply moving work by one of today's most talented young Japanese writers. In this book Yoshimoto juxtaposes two stories about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, and tragedy, as seen through the eyes of a pair or free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan
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Fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction, Japan, Fiction, Fiction - General
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