. "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." . . . . . . . . . . . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . . . . "Domestic fiction" . . . . . "Kitchen roman" . . "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." . . . . . . . "Kitchen : roman"@da . "Kitchen : roman" . . . . . "Kitchen : [roman]" . . "Moonlight shadow" . . "Fiction"@en . "Cuentos japoneses"@es . . "Fiction" . . "Ausgabe" . "Fiction"@es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "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." . . . . . . . . . . . . "Kitchin"@it . "Kitchin" . . . . . "Love stories" . . . . . . "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945" . . . "Kitchen"@en . "Kitchen"@it . "Kitchen" . "Kitchen"@es . . "Kitchen"@fi . . . "Powieść japońska" . . . . . . . . "Translations" . . "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 . . . . "Short stories" . . . . . "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." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Kitchen"@it . . "Kitchen" . . . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "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." . "Nouvelles japonaises." . . "Short stories." . . "Cuisines Romans." . . "Cocinas Ficción." . . "Alumni author." . . "japanese fiction." . . "Japanese fiction." . "Roman." . . "Women." . . "Narrativa japonesa Traduccions S. XX." . . "Japanisch." . . "Femmes Japon Romans." . . "engelsk skønlitteratur." . . "Literatura japonesa." . . "Novela japonesa Siglo XX." . . "1926 - 1989" . . "Heranwachsender." . . "Short stories, Japanese 20th century." . . . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Legoprint," . . "Short stories, Japanese." . . "Geschichte 1985" . . "Geschichte 1985." . "Japan" . . "Japan." . "Women Japan Fiction." . . "Roman japonais 20e siècle Traductions françaises." . . "Literatură japoneză." . . "Literatura japonesa Siglo XX Traducciones al ingles." . . "Kitchens." . . "Mujeres Japón Ficción." . . "Kitchens Fiction." . . "Japanese fiction 20th century." . . "Novel·les." . . "Großstadt." . .