num_pages: 160
description: In Kitchen, a young Japanese woman named Mikage Sakurai struggles to overcome the death of her grandmother. She gradually grows close to one of her grandmother's friends, Yuichi, from a flower shop and ends up staying with him and his transgender mother, Eriko.
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: 88172
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