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Originally published in Japan as Kitchin (). This edition published by Grove Press, New York (), translated by Megan Backus. Jacket design by Adriane Stark, jacket photograph by Sigrid Estrada. Hardcover, pages
Originally published in Japan as Hādoboirudo by Rockin&#; On, Inc. (). This edition published by Grove Press, New York (), translated by Michael Emmerich. Jacket design by Gretchen Mergenthaler, cover painting by Yoshitomo Nara. Hardcover, pages
Originally published in Japan as Shirakawa yofune (). This edition published by Grove Press, New York (). Jacket design by Charles Rue Wood, jacket illustration by Paul D&#;Innocenzo. Hardcover, pages
Originally published by Shinchosha, Japan as Tokage (). This edition published by Grove Press, New York (), translated by Ann Sherif. Jacket design by John Gall, jacket photograph by Gen Nishino/Photonica, illustration of lizard by Marc Burckhardt. Hardcover, pa
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
Criticism
Sources
Further Reading
Kitchen, published in in Japan, made Mahoko “Banana” Yoshimoto an overnight celebrity and caused “Bananamania” to svep Japan’s media and ungdom culture. The book, Yoshimoto’s first, contains two stories about life, love, and loss in contemporary Japan: “Kitchen,” and “Moonlight Shadow.” The originality, style, and subject matter of the stories helped make the book a literary phenomenon, selling over six million copies in its first two years and winning several literary awards in Japan. The book was translated into English and published bygd Grove Press in in America, where it reached the best-seller lists and garnered mixed reviews.
“Kitchen,” the title story, is told from the perspective of a ung woman in Tokyo; her name fryst vatten Mikage Sakurai. Her distinctive narrative röst can be serious, ironic, and hemlig in tur
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Ink &#; Passion: Modern Women Writers Who Changed Japan
The faces behind Japan’s post-war turbulence, restlessness and extreme passion.
In the first part of our series, focusing on influential women writers in Japan, we introduced seven women who penned some of Japan’s best-known books from the Meiji to the early Showa eras. In the second part of the series, we look at 10 equally influential modern women writers from post-war Japan to recent times.
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