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Kitchen (Paperback)

by Banana Yoshimoto (Author)

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; 1 edition (May 1 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802142443
ISBN-13: 978-0802142443
Product Dimensions: 18 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 159 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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With the publication of <I>Kitchen,</I> the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. <I>Kitchen</I> is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales 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, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

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 very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.

About the Author

Banana yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep, Goodbye Tsugumi, and, most recently, Harboiled & Hard Luck. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Moving, Nov 15 2008

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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto actually consists of two stories: Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow. Kitchen is just barely over a hundred pages long, and Moonlight Shadow is forty-four pages. Like her other novel, Hardboiled and Hard Luck, Kitchen is also about loss and moving on. Kitchen is well written and makes a great short read. Both of the stories are written in first person, so I was able to experience the emotions that the characters felt: their loneliness, their despair. I was hoping for more of an ending from Kitchen, but I sort of knew what would happen.

**MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**

Kitchen is about Mikage Sakurai, whose parents are dead, and she was taken in by her grandparents. Her grandfather passed away, and then her grandmother. Now, Mikage is all alone, with no living relatives, with only the kitchen to console her. The sound of the refrigerator makes her forget her troubles, and allows her to sleep peacefully. While grieving, she meets Yuichi Tanabe, a man that goes to the same university as her, who used to know her grandmother, who helped her at the funeral. Mikage is taken in by Yuichi and his "mother," Eriko. They form a family, but suffer more loss.

Moonlight Shadow is about Satsuki, who has just suffered the loss of her boyfriend of four years, Hitoshi. She cannot sleep properly, and she started going jogging every morning. Satsuki meets an odd stranger, Urara, and then there is Hitoshi's eccentric younger brother, Hiiragi, who will help her deal with her loss in a surprising way.

Kitchen teaches you that no matter what happens, you have to continue living, because loss is a part of life.

Some passages I liked:
"Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely." (21)
"The night was so deathly silent that I felt I could hear the sound of stars moving across the heavens." (31)
"...[T]his moment, too, might become a dream." (41)

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