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Title	:	Kitchen
Author	:	Banana Yoshimoto
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto

Paperback | Pages: 152 pages

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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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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

I have read several of Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto's books to date, and have thoroughly enjoyed them all.  I was therefore very much looking forward to beginning her debut, Kitchen, which collects together two novellas - 'Kitchen' and 'Moonlight Shadow'.  First published in Japan in 1987, where it won two of the most prestigious literary prizes in the country and remained on the bestseller list for more than a year, Kitchen was seamlessly translated into English by Megan Backus in 1993. Its

There's something about Japanese writers. They have the unparalleled ability of transforming an extremely ordinary scene from our everyday mundane lives into something magical and other-worldly. A man walking along a river-bank on a misty April morning may appear to our senses as an ethereal being, barely human, on the path to deliverance and self-discovery. There's something deeply melancholic yet powerfully meaningful about the beautiful vignettes they beget. Few other writers are capable of