Title: Kitchen /
Authors: Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-; Backus, Megan; Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-
Publisher: Grove Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Domestic fiction; Short stories; Japan Fiction
Abstract: When Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1988, "Banana-mania" seized the country. Kitchen won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the best-seller list, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. With the appearance of the critically acclaimed Tugumi (1989) and NP (1991), the Japanese literary world realized that in Banana Yoshimoto it was confronted not with a passing fluke but with a.