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Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature, and has been described as 'the voice of young Japan' by the Independent on Sunday.
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Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Kitchen
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 158
- ISBN10
- 0571171044
- ISBN13
- 9780571171040
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary Romance, Japan, Adapted for Film, Mourning, Japanese Literature, Selected works, Asian Fiction, Tokyo
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- キッチン
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film.When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature, and has been described as 'the voice of young Japan' by the Independent on Sunday.