Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto s novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English language debut that is still her best loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free spirited young women in contemporary Japan Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother who was once his father , Eriko As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras Kitchen and its companion story, Moonlight Shadow, are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. Read Kitchen Author Banana Yoshimoto – kino-fada.fr There s something about Japanese writers They have the unparalleled ability of transforming an extremely ordinary scene from our everyday mundane lives into something magical and other worldly A man walking along a river bank on a misty April morning may appear to our senses as an ethereal being, barely human, on the path to deliverance and self discovery There s something deeply melancholic yet powerfully meaningful about the beautiful vignettes they beget Few other writers are capable of c There s something about Japanese writers They have the unparalleled ability of transforming an extremely ordinary scene from our everyday mundane lives into something magical and other worldly A man walking along a river bank on a misty April morning may appear to our senses as an ethereal being, barely human, on the path to deliverance and self dis...Kitchen and its accompanying story Moonlight Shadow comprise the first novella by award winning Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto Both stories are told through the eyes of young women grieving following the death of a loved one, and deal with how that death plays a profound role in relationships going forward Told in straight forward prose leaving nothing to chance, Yoshimoto tells two elegant stories In Kitchen, Mikage Sakurai had just lost her grandmother, the last person in her family to Kitchen and its accompanying story Moonlight Shadow comprise the first novella by award winning Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto Both stories are told through the eyes of young women grieving following the death of a loved one, and deal with how that death plays a profound role in relationships going forward Told in straight forward prose leaving nothing to chance, Yoshimoto tells two elegant stories In Kitchen, Mikage Sakurai had just lost her grandmother, the last person in her family to pass away Alone in the world and unable to cope with her unive...Oh, let s face it I love everything Banana Yoshimoto s ever written But that said, she s not for everyone she s a minimalist storyteller, at least in my opinion, able to turn the emotional state of the right reader with the flick of just one beautiful perfect phrase, but only if you re ready to catch that bea...Can cooking help you cope with the despondency you feel from loss I m not talking about wolfing down garlic mashed potatoes from a pan I m talking about a multi course gourmet meal that you are willing to toss out if it s not perfect and start all over again That s the theme of Kitchen Our main character is a twentyish woman who lost her father at an early age and then her mother She went to live with grandparents but her grandfather died, and then her grandmother, and now she has no living Can cooking help you cope with the despondency you feel from loss I m not talking about wolfing down garlic mashed potatoes from a pan I m talking about a multi course gourmet meal that you are willing to toss out if it s not perfect and start all over again That s the theme of Kitchen Our main character is a twentyish woman who lost her father at an early age and then her mother She went ...This is a book on healing, a lovely look at the hurting human heart and its captivating reflection Convalescence has never been so beautiful One has to admit that the theme of loss in literature has been one of the most exploited and has been done so masterfully by the best But never have I encountered one on recovery where it has been handled as exquisitely Everyone we love is dying Still, to cease living is unacceptable When you lose someone, a void is created You seek to fill that hol This is a book on healing, a lovely look at the hurting human heart and its captivating reflection Convalescence has never been so beautiful One has to admit that the theme of loss in literature has been one of the most exploited and has been done so masterfully by the best But never have I encountered one on recovery where it has been handled as exquisitely Everyone we love is dying Still, to cease living is unacceptable When you lose someone, a void is created You seek to fill that hole inside you Stability is what you desire, because your once solid world of certainties has crumbled And so we latch onto the most basic things and habits Constant things we know ...One of the many things I love about goodreads is that a person is able to see what other friends think about a novel before committing oneself to reading it I would have never read KITCHEN had I not seen that Mariel, Oriana, and Jason Pettus, three of my friends, all thought highly of this slim book But, even with the high ratings of these three friends , I still had to find out information about Banana Yoshimoto, the author So I went to Wikipedia obviously, where else would I go and re One of the many things I love about goodreads is that a person is able to see what other friends think about a novel before committing oneself to reading it I would have never read KITCHEN had I not seen that Mariel, Oriana, and Jason Pettus, three of my friends, all thought highly of this slim book But, even with the high ratings of these three friends , I still had to find out information about Banana Yoshimoto, the author So I went to Wikipedia obviously, where else would I go and read about her accomplishments and many literary awards in her home country of Japan It seemed there was a phase lovi...People aren t overcome by situations or outside forces defeat invades from within I didn t like this book It comprises a novella Kitchen and short story Moonlight Shadow , but I m not sure how much is the book s fault, and how much can be attributed to being set in an unfamiliar culture Japanese teens twenties , possibly bad translation, and that although the atmosphere is contemporary, it was actually written and set nearly 30 years ago.I was expecting lyrical language, and quirky insig People aren t overcome by situations or outside forces defeat invades from within I didn t like this book It comprises a novella Kitchen and short story Moonlight Shadow , but I m not sure how much is the book s fault, and how much can be attributed to being set in an unfamiliar culture Japanese teens twenties , possibly bad tra...4.5 5A couple of days ago, I watched a film called Millenium Actress, a Japanese anime film centered around the life of a once wildly popular Japanese film star I loved it for its lovely story as well as its wonderful animation, but most of all for its peculiar disregard of many of the rules of film that I hadn t realized I unconsciously followed until they were subverted This sort of bending and breaking of my own sensibilities into something I had never considered something that would work 4.5 5A couple of days ago, I watched a film called Millenium Actress, a Japanese anime film centered around the life of a once wildly popular Japanese film star I loved it for its lovely story as well as its wonderful animation, but most of all for its peculiar disregard of many of the rules of film that I hadn t realized I unconsciously followed until they were subverted This sort of bending and breaking of my own sensibilities into something I had never considered something that would work is rampant in this book here, on a muchheartbreaking level As both the film and the book are Japanese, there could be a correlation that other partakers of that particular cultural entertainment would be familiar with, but I shy away from labeling it as some...Now that I teach English as my main job I amthan ever aware of how language shapes and limits what can be expressed, how it makes and remakes the social world as it is made and remade I have read few books from the Japanese, but I would wager I can tell such a text after reading a page Perhaps it was the themes, not only the flavour of the language, that made this taste so distinctly Japanese to me Quirky relationships, dramatic melancholy, organised and comfortable domesticity, defianc Now that I teach English as my main job I amthan ever aware of how language shapes and limits what can be expressed, how it makes and remakes the social world as it is made and remade I have read few books from the Japanese... if a person hasn t ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life never understanding what joy really is I m grateful for it. Samadrita in her excellent review began with There s something about Japanese writers They have the unparalleled ability of transforming an extremely ordinary scene from our everyday mundane lives into something magical and other worldly.I thoroughly agree with her and that magical quality transforms what could have if a...

• English
• 20 January 2017
Banana Yoshimoto
• Paperback
• 152 pages
• 0802142443
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Kitchen