I'd read the first novella in Kitchen before, but embarrassingly, I'd never read the second! I love the first one so much, I was a bit worried that I wouldn't love the second. Honestly, I don't love the second as much, but I loved it anyway. It has some of the most wonderful lines I've ever read. ...
Kitchen is two stories. The first is the novella Kitchen which is a delightful surprise and the second is a long short story called moonlight shadow.Banana Yoshimoto wrote Kitchen when she was only 24 and Moonlight Shadow was written prior to that. Moonlight shadow reads like talented juvenalia an...
How can such sort stories be filled with so much emotions? This was the first thought that came to mind when I finished reading Kitchen and indeed this book was an emotional rollercoaster. Both of the stories were deeply touching and heartfelt, although they were short and concise. Kitchen, the fi...
Kitchen was hyped quite a bit when I got my first bookstore job about 20 years ago. It remained one of those books I kept in the back of my mind to read, and this year's reading challenges gave me the incentive. Kitchen is actually two short novellas:Kitchen details the story of an orphaned young wo...
Two short stories about young people coming to terms with the lost of loved ones. Some may find it a bit sentimental, but I do really like the simplistic & well crafted sentences and the tragic beauty when the narrators talk about sadness and lost loves.
This was definitely the kind of book you'd like to keep reading for a long time after it's finished. Not really the kind of book I normally go for, but something I really enjoyed. Comforting, peaceful, beautiful. Makes me want to get to know the author better.
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, ...
I've been hearing so much about this book--the author has won a whole bunch of awards, it appears on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list (which, while admittedly flawed, I have found to contain a lot of exceptional works)--but I was pretty underwhelmed. I mean, it's a fine book. There's...
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