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Kitchen

Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.

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  • "Moonlight shadow"
  • "Kitchin"@it
  • "Kitchin"
  • "Kitchen"
  • "Kitchen"@it

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  • "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."
  • "Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy."
  • "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."
  • "Drie korte verhalen over de rouwverwerking van jonge Japanse vrouwen na het verlies van een naaste."
  • "Relates the experiences of two free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan."@en
  • "Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan."
  • "Als Mikage ihre Großmutter verliert, ist sie vollkommen allein in der grossen Wohnung. Nur in der Küche, wo sie das Brummen des Kühlschranks in den Schlaf wiegt, kommt sie zur Ruhe. Aus ihrer Einsamkeit holt sie Yuichi. Er schlägt ihr vor, zu ihm und seiner Mutter zu ziehen. Es entwickelt sich eine merkwürdige Wohngemeinschaft. Denn Eriko, die wunderschöne "Mutter" Yuichis, hat eine schillernde Vergangenheit."
  • "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."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Cuentos japoneses"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Love stories"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Powieść japońska"
  • "Translations"
  • "Short stories"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Kitchen roman"
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  • "Kitchen : [roman]"
  • "Kitchen"@en
  • "Kitchen"@it
  • "Kitchen"
  • "Kitchen"@es
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