Literary, Japan, Domestic fiction, Kitchens, Short Stories, Women, Japanese, Yoshimoto, Banana, Japanese fiction 

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. 

Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Short stories
Japanese fiction
Fiction
Translations (form)
Novels (texts)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Banana Yoshimoto; Megan Backus
ISBN: 0802115160 9780802115164 9780802142443 0802142443 0329785923 9780329785925
OCLC Number: 25676042
Notes: Translation of: Kitchin.
"Moolight shadow"--Page [107]-152.
Description: 152 pages ; 19 cm
Contents: Kitchen --
Moonlight shadow.
Other Titles: Kitchin.
Responsibility: Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus.