Kitchen
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"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of ...show more
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Took me a while to warm up to this book because like many books written by Japanese authors, the story's odd and otherworldly despite being mundane. But, like many Japanese works, it soon unfolded its magic.
Surreal, almost ethereal, and melancholic, the tragedy (or rather, tragedies) of Kitchen (and its companion story, Moonlight Shadow) slowly pierced me. Written in prose that alternates between gentle and sharp but often beautiful, this book ...read more
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