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Ladataan... Kitchen– tekijä: Banana Yoshimoto
  
Japanese Literature (25) Female Author (126) » 12 lisää Female Protagonist (157) Top Five Books of 2017 (493) 1980s (89) Five star books (513) Magic Realism (193) Books Read in 2018 (3,035) Best of World Literature (104) Books tagged "feel good" (113) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. this was the first book i managed to finish in nearly five years so it feel very special to me. a sweet, easy read.  rusala | Feb 23, 2021 |  I finally Burgoined this (read it in 2006) because I read my friend Mamie's bleat of dissatisfaction with it. I really don't like the book at all. I was exactly 2.5* impressed with it because transsexuals in Japanese (or US) literature are not common. As a value proposition, I encourage you to read representative sample quotes to see if your tolerance for glutinous prose is high enough to endure this. In general, I think it will give the greatest pleasure for specialist audiences. (  ) richardderus | Feb 7, 2021 | Mikage Sakurai, la narradora de esta historia, queda sola tras la muerte de su abuela y su tristeza la lleva a refugiarse en la cocina. Yuichi Tanabe es un compañero de la universidad que le ofrece su casa para remediar su soledad. Entre ambos se crea un extraño vínculo que ya no podrán romper. socogarv | Jan 19, 2021 | "As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again, I will suffer; again and again, I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed." It's a short read but provoked me with a lot of feelings. Reading this book makes me realize I've yet ready to face the inevitable feeling of grieving the loved ones. But Yoshimoto also shows through her characters that there's hope in enduring and overcoming it. Kitchen explores the theme of grief and loneliness, written in a succinct yet intimate narration. The book consists of two slice-of-life novellas, both of which explore the same poignant theme, but one has a drop of a magical-realism element in it. The first story circles around Mikage, who just lost her grandmother and found comfort in the kitchen with the company of her new friends. The second story is about Satsuki, a young woman dealing with a sudden loss of her boyfriend in a car accident. Both sets in modern Tokyo that Yoshimoto perfectly captured its ambiance and culture for readers that haven't been there. This is definitely one of the books that I'll revisit in the future. (  ) bellacrl | Jan 19, 2021 | 14 (  ) MRMP | Jan 9, 2021 |
 For English-language readers, the appeal of "Kitchen" lies in its portrayal of the lives of young Japanese.  Banana Yoshimoto won immediate fame in Japan with the publication of this pair of novellas about two bold and guileless women grappling with emotional loss. Yoshimoto's oriental concision is sometimes idiosyncratic and haiku-like ..., but it's a quality of poignant, dignified resilience that makes this little work worthwhile... Sisältää nämä:Moonlight Shadow (tekijä: Banana Yoshimoto)
"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 full-fledged phenomenon: a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of twentieth-century Japanese literature." "Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Told in a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, "Kitchen" and its companion story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a masterful storyteller. They are the work of a very special new writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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