Banana Yoshimoto
Paperback | Pages: 152 pages Rating: 3.86 | 44278 Users | 3637 Reviews
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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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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.Itemize Containing Books Kitchen
| Title | : | Kitchen |
| Author | : | Banana Yoshimoto |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe 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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Ratings: 3.86 From 44278 Users | 3637 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Kitchen
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 thisThere'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
Read the full review at Elgee WritesKitchen begins with Mikage Sakurai grieving the death of her grandmother, in their kitchen. Yuichi and his mother Eriko takes her in as she has no other family left. Mikage throws herself into cooking and food, which becomes part of her heart and dreams. Eriko is a transvestite, who runs a gay night club and lives with her son Yuichi who studies at Uni. He was a man for a long time until his wife died and then he changes 'her face and her everything' with the
I did a quick audit of my Japanese cultural input and came up with the following :MOVIESTokyo Story beautiful acknowledged masterpieceNobody Knows great indyKikujiro worth watchingLove Exposure quite insane, probably brilliant, unmissable, but you should be warned that its quite insaneVisitor Q er, probably avoid this one! Really gross.Seven Samurai may be the greatest film ever, if there is such a thingWESTERN PERSPECTIVES Babel brilliant film, but the Tokyo part is strange &
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
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
This is a book on healing, a lovely look at the hurting human heart and its captivating reflection. Convalescence has never been so beautiful. One has to admit that the theme of loss in literature has been one of the most exploited and has been done so masterfully by the best. But never have I encountered one on recovery where it has been handled as exquisitely. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable. When you lose someone, a void is created. You seek to fill that hole
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