num_pages: 152
description: 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.
language: English
title: Kitchen
titlecomplete: Kitchen
characters: Urara (Kitchen), Eriko Tanabe, Yūichi Tanabe, Hiiragi, Mikage Sakurai, Satsuki (Kitchen)
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, Japan, Japanese Literature, Romance, Asian Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 88190
places: Japan, Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Nihon University Department of Arts Prize, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Kaien magazine New Writer Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Mishima Yukio Prize 三島由紀夫賞
publisher: Grove Press