Kitchen - Hardcover

Yoshimoto, Banana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802115160 ISBN 13: 9780802115164

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1993

Synopsis

When Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987, "Bananamania" seized the country. Kitchen won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes and sold millions of copies. It is a startlingly original yet charming book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and a pair of free-spirited young women. (Grove Press)

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Review:

"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley's, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler's. ...[It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go."
"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
"Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller. . . . The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful. The language is deceptively simple." --"Chicago Tribune"
"Yoshimoto shouldn't be shy about basking in her celebrity. Her achievements are already legend."--"The Boston Globe"
"A meditation on the transience of beauty and love...Melancholy and lovely." -"The Washington Post Book World"
Ms. Yoshimoto s writing is lucid, earnest and disarming . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader s sympathy and refuses to let go. Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller. . . . The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful. The language is deceptively simple. "Chicago Tribune"
Yoshimoto shouldn t be shy about basking in her celebrity. Her achievements are already legend. "The Boston Globe"
A meditation on the transience of beauty and loveMelancholy and lovely. "The Washington Post Book World"
"
Ms. Yoshimoto s writing is lucid, earnest and disarming . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader s sympathy and refuses to let go. Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller. . . . The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful. The language is deceptively simple. Chicago Tribune
Yoshimoto shouldn t be shy about basking in her celebrity. Her achievements are already legend. The Boston Globe
A meditation on the transience of beauty and loveMelancholy and lovely. The Washington Post Book World
"
"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Banana Yoshimoto is a master storyteller. . . . The sensuality is subtle, masked, and extraordinarily powerful. The language is deceptively simple." --Chicago Tribune

"Yoshimoto shouldn't be shy about basking in her celebrity. Her achievements are already legend."--The Boston Globe

"A meditation on the transience of beauty and love...Melancholy and lovely." -The Washington Post Book World

From the Back Cover:

A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0802115160
• ISBN 13: 9780802115164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1