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Title:Kitchen
Author:Banana Yoshimoto
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 152 pages
Published:April 17th 2006 by Grove Press (first published January 30th 1988)
Categories:Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Short Stories. Contemporary. Asia. Novels
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Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.

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Original Title: キッチン [Kitchin]
ISBN: 0802142443 (ISBN13: 9780802142443)
Edition Language: English
Characters: Mikage Sakurai, Yūichi, Eriko
Setting: Tokyo(Japan) Izu(Japan) Isehara(Japan)
Literary Awards: Nihon University Department of Arts Prize (1986), Kaien magazine New Writer Prize (1987), Mishima Yukio Prize 三島由紀夫賞 Nominee (1988)


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Oh, let's face it; I love everything Banana Yoshimoto's ever written! But that said, she's not for everyone; she's a minimalist storyteller, at least in my opinion, able to turn the emotional state of the right reader with the flick of just one beautiful perfect phrase, but only if you're ready to catch that beautiful perfect phrase and appreciate it for what it is. Give up on this review yet? Then you shouldn't be reading Yoshimoto! Actually consisting of two novellas, Kitchen (named after the

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4.5/5A couple of days ago, I watched a film called Millenium Actress, a Japanese anime film centered around the life of a once wildly popular Japanese film star. I loved it for its lovely story as well as its wonderful animation, but most of all for its peculiar disregard of many of the 'rules' of film that I hadn't realized I unconsciously followed until they were subverted. This sort of bending and breaking of my own sensibilities into something I had never considered something that would work

Japan has always comes across as something of a dichotomy to me; on the one hand it is deeply socially conservatives and shows a deep reverence of the past and its traditions, yet on the other hand it has innumerable quirks and eccentricities and is home to a vast array of oddballs. Oddballs would be a good way of surmising 'Kitchen' in a single word; Yoshimoto explores the lives of various oddballs, from ethereally beautiful transgender women to grown men wearing girls school uniforms in the

If there is a colour for the prose of Banana Yoshimoto, it is blue. Reading Kitchen is like walking in the clear crisp air of a blue night in Tokyo. She works beautifully with surrealistic imagery, with artless simplicity. The images of the night, the houses in the streetlight, the colour of the sunset and the sky, the moonlight in the kitchen transpire again and again in the beautifully sparse writing until one breathes completely in the dreamlike quality of it. These images do not convey the

This is a book I've wanted to read basically ever since I joined GoodReads. I think that must've been in 2012? Quite a while ago anyway. I would try to stalk it at the library, but it was just always borrowed. And it cost a lot on Amazon too. Which is why come 2016, I still hadn't read one of the first books I ever put on my TBR.So when I saw it at the book store two weeks ago, it wasn't a hard decision at all! Even if it was a lot thinner than I had imagined it to be.A lot of people love this