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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto 1988
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
Criticism
Sources
Further Reading
Kitchen, published in 1988 in Japan, made Mahoko “Banana” Yoshimoto an overnight celebrity and caused “Bananamania” to sweep Japan’s media and youth culture. The book, Yoshimoto’s first, contains two stories about life, love, and loss in contemporary Japan: “Kitchen,” and “Moonlight Shadow.” The originality, style, and subject matter of the stories helped make the book a literary phenomenon, selling over six million copies in its first two years and winning several literary awards in Japan. The book was translated into English and published by Grove Press in 1993 in America, where it reached the best-seller lists and garnered mixed reviews.
“Kitchen,” the title story, is told from the perspective of a young woman in Tokyo; her name is Mikage Sakurai. Her distinctive narrative voice can be serious, ironic, and confidential in turns. This young woman has just lost her grandmother, who was the last living member of her family. She now finds herself all alone in the world and filled with pain. As the story progresses, Mikage thinks about and confronts major issues in life: death, hope, friendship, loneliness, and