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' by the Independent on Sunday.
language: English
title: Kitchen
titlecomplete: Kitchen
characters: Mikage Sakurai, Urara (Kitchen), Eriko Tanabe, Yūichi Tanabe, Satsuki (Kitchen), Hiiragi
genres: Asia, Short Stories, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Asian Literature, Japan, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 88159
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: Faber & Faber