Kitchen - Softcover

Yoshimoto, Banana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671880187 ISBN 13: 9780671880187

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1994

Synopsis

Two stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow," told through the eyes of a pair of contemporary young Japanese women, deal with the themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy. Reprint. NYT.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671880187
• ISBN 13: 9780671880187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160