num_pages: 150
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'.
language: English
title: Kitchen
titlecomplete: Kitchen
characters: Yūichi Tanabe, Eriko Tanabe, Urara (Kitchen), Mikage Sakurai, Satsuki (Kitchen), Hiiragi
genres: Asian Literature, Short Stories, Japan, Asia, Novels, Japanese Literature, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 88154
places: Tokyo, Japan
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: Faber and Faber