Kitchen キッチン is a novel written by japanese author banana yoshimoto 吉本ばなな in 1988 and translated into english in 1993 by megan backus.
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The independent the times and the new yorker have all reviewed the.
This is a nice story but it is not of the same calibre as kitchen.
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Banana yoshimoto s novels have made her a sensation in japan and all over the world and kitchen the dazzling english language debut that is still her best loved book is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book 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.
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I learnt cooking after marriage and now it has become my passion and i like to experiment.
Appended at the end of the novel kitchen like a mint after a fine meal is the short story moonlight shadow.
In kitchen yoshimoto provides a recipe for fresh air in the often staid literary world.