Oh my God. I am bawling like a child. Ms. Yoshimoto has a magical ability to write so eloquently with such simple words. My heart strings were pulled and yanked with this book. It's beyond amazing. I love it so much. It features two novellas "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow" and they are equally fa...
I think I'm in love with another woman. You can tell my wife. I'm sure she understands. As a former instructor of world literature, she can understand how a reader can become totally infatuated by a writer's virtuosity and their ability to transcend culture when they poke at the universal longings a...
Tengo un especial aprecio por el estilo japonés.No que haya leído muchos libros japoneses, pero siempre me recuerdan a un haiku: dicen lo que tienen que decir de forma bella, pero con las palabras justas.
Two novellas, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow", that both concern the death of loved ones, mourning, and gradual recovery. They're both told in the first person by young women, and set in Tokyo. They have a direct way of telling that charts every shift of the narrators' mobile emotional landscape, a...
This book caught my eye on the bookstore shelf, and I'll be honest: after flipping through and reading the back, I was interested but not enough to bother. Then I got to the part on the jacket where the novel is compared to early Duras, and...being an absolute Duras fangirl, I couldn't resist. I ...
This little novella is able to tackle the haze we find ourselves in after the loss of a loved one better than many books I've read. It wallows in the loneliness that surrounds you after death and the need to either reach out or be reached out to by others in order to move past everything. All of the...
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