Kitchen

A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty-year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.

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.

Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep, and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world.