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product_id: 48537228
title: "Kitchen"
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# Kitchen

**Price:** $370
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- **What is this?** Kitchen
- **How much does it cost?** $370 with free shipping
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## Description

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature, and has been described as 'the voice of young Japan' by the Independent on Sunday .

Review: Turning Japanese - Remarkable. Minimalist in only a Japanese way. The kitchen as centre symbol for family - lost and found- cooking the metaphor of change (of state, of mood, of gender). The story is noodle thin. The senses deep as katsudon. Tick tick sounds click through the names and the narrative. There are ghosts in the distance; strange as angels on your shoulder. That weird video quality of creeping terror. This is that fifth taste; umami, neither sweet or sour. A new take on the oldest of tales. Fresh, fragrant, lotus blossomed and beautiful. Read, ingest, become, and "in the meantime, don't disappear on me."
Review: Loved it - I really enjoyed reading this book. It was interesting, well paced and the characters were mulit layered and showed great development. It's hard to explain this one to people when they ask you about the plot and so on but I really recommend it. Please please read this and savor every moment.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 410,508 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 31,336 in Literary Fiction (Books) 33,093 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 137 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Turning Japanese
*by D***5 on 15 November 2015*

Remarkable. Minimalist in only a Japanese way. The kitchen as centre symbol for family - lost and found- cooking the metaphor of change (of state, of mood, of gender). The story is noodle thin. The senses deep as katsudon. Tick tick sounds click through the names and the narrative. There are ghosts in the distance; strange as angels on your shoulder. That weird video quality of creeping terror. This is that fifth taste; umami, neither sweet or sour. A new take on the oldest of tales. Fresh, fragrant, lotus blossomed and beautiful. Read, ingest, become, and "in the meantime, don't disappear on me."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Loved it
*by C***J on 30 March 2013*

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was interesting, well paced and the characters were mulit layered and showed great development. It's hard to explain this one to people when they ask you about the plot and so on but I really recommend it. Please please read this and savor every moment.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful, quirky, sad - a little gem in my bookshelf
*by L***S on 7 September 2014*

Loved this little gem of a book! Quirky and quite sad but what a joy to read.

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