TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yoshimoto,Banana
AU  - Backus,Megan
AU  - Yoshimoto,Banana
TI  - Kitchen
SN  - 0802115160
AV  - PL865.O7138 K5813 1993
U1  - 895.6/35 20
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Japan
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Short stories
N1  - Translation of: Kitchin; "Moolight shadow"--P. [107]-152; Kitchen -- Moonlight shadow
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/kitchen00yosh
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1710941M
ER  -