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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Kitchen&quot; is a great little novella, and reading it is like having an old friend come to stay with you for a few days out of the blue.  That one friend who had just the perfect quirky turn of phrase, the oddly poetic outlook on things like noodles and shoelace-tips.  Yoshimoto's writing ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/616757">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book surrounded many themes of love and death, it was surprisingly light and refreshing. Yoshimoto writes in a very classy but bold style which conveys the inner strength of main characters. <br/><br/>The first character, Mikage is a young adult living in contemporary Japan, whose gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19388010">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read this last week, I'm now confused.  Not about the book (which reads in a way that doesn't require the slightest bit of effort) or about Japanese culture (which comes to life with enough universality to make sense).  No.  I was confused as to why, with an MA in contemporary English literat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12963946">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brooklyn has the best tag sales. People there seem to only own good stuff, and sometimes get in the mood to sell it all off for fifty cents a pop. It was at such a tag sale that I spotted the book, which I had earlier seen on the &quot;currently reading&quot; list of a very ahead-of-the-curve friend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2662175">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Any time I try to read Japanese novels I feel like I'm missing something.  In Kitchen, as in the few other Japanese novels I've read, the prose seems flat and spare.  I'm beginning to think it's not a question of translation and more a question of a different writing style.  Mikage, a young woman, i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16545075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kitchen is a novel made up of two short stories - the eponymous one and another, by one of Japan’s most popular contemporary writers Banana Yoshimoto. This was actually her debut novel and it contains all the zest and magic of a new author just setting out.<br/><br/>The two stories, while separate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46708303">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku ini terdiri dari dua novelet: Kitchen dan Moonlight Shadow.<br/><br/>Tertarik beli buku ini satu, karena covernya simpel tapi cantik, kedua, karena judul dan ceritanya berkaitan sama dapur.I love kitchen!Buat saya dapur adalah tempat belajar, tempat saya bisa hilang dan larut dalam sebuah dun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81515664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The reasons why I bought this book were quite silly. First, I got extra money in my pocket and then the second was some kind of feeling that saying tome, &quot;this is a good and simple book which worth to read and collect&quot;. Luckily I was right. Although if I was wrong I still would read and ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58368498">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as blatantly annoying as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= N.P." title=" N.P."> N.P.</a>, but still not very good. (Why did I read it at all, you legitimately inquire? Because I bought both it and <em>N.P.</em> at the same time, for 25¢ each, and I felt obligated. Yes, even at 25¢. At least it was short.) As in <em>N.P.</em>, Yoshimoto writes conversations between cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39553510">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Aku tak bisa tidur di tempat lain selain dapur.&quot;<br/><br/>Mikage Sakurai sebatang kara sejak neneknya meningal. dapur menjadi satu-satunya tempat dimana ia dikelilingi panci bekas pakai dan sisa ceceran sayur, serta ditemani sepetak langit malam berbintang di jendela.<br/><br/>namun dapur keluarga Tanabe yang membuatnya jatuh cinta. Di sana selama satu musim panas ia bergulat dengan acar, udon, soba, dan tempura. Di sana pula ia temukan apa yang tak pernah dimilikinya: keluarga, bersama Yuichi Tanabe yang dingin dan Eriko Tanabe yang mempesona--perempuan transeksual yang sejatinya ayah kandung Yuichi.<br/><br/>Ketika Eriko meninggal, Mikage dan Yuichi menjauh dan saling terasing dalam kesedihan. Apa yang harus mereka lakukan untuk bangkit dari dukacita dan menyadari ada cinta di antara mereka?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Mikage, kau terpesona pada ibuku?&quot; tanyanya.<br/><br/>&quot;Begitulah. Habis dia cantik sekali,&quot; kataku jujur.<br/><br/>&quot;Ya, ya,&quot; sambil tertawa, Yuichi berjalan ke arahku lalu duduk di lantai di depanku. &quot;Dia menjalani operasi plastik.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Masa?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59244745">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can honestly say that this is not a book that I would have normally picked up and decided to read, but after reading several good reviews, I decided to give it a try.  I had no idea what the story was about and had never even heard of the author (but as I'm trying to somewhat broaden my reading ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64431731">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I picked up years ago, started to read, put down and did not pick up for years and years. I guess it was last spring or summer I was looking for something to read and finally picked it back up again. <br/><br/>Kitchen was an OK novel about love, loss, and trying to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45454001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I find it difficult to review a book that has been translated from another language, especially ones as grammatically different as Japanese. Are the words truly as transformative as they seem or is it the work of a transcendental translator? <br/><br/>Further complicating matters is the fact that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75601121">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Aku tak bisa tidur di tempat lain selain dapur.&quot;<br/><br/>Mikage Sakurai sebatang kara sejak neneknya meningal. dapur menjadi satu-satunya tempat dimana ia dikelilingi panci bekas pakai dan sisa ceceran sayur, serta ditemani sepetak langit malam berbintang di jendela.<br/><br/>namun dapur keluarga Tanabe yang membuatnya jatuh cinta. Di sana selama satu musim panas ia bergulat dengan acar, udon, soba, dan tempura. Di sana pula ia temukan apa yang tak pernah dimilikinya: keluarga, bersama Yuichi Tanabe yang dingin dan Eriko Tanabe yang mempesona--perempuan transeksual yang sejatinya ayah kandung Yuichi.<br/><br/>Ketika Eriko meninggal, Mikage dan Yuichi menjauh dan saling terasing dalam kesedihan. Apa yang harus mereka lakukan untuk bangkit dari dukacita dan menyadari ada cinta di antara mereka?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[buat saya, buku yang bagus adalah buku yang membuat saya ingin menulis. kepiawaian sang penulis merangkai kata sehingga mampu menggelitik otak malas saya untuk menghasilkan sesuatu. saya membaca banyak buku, tapi tidak banyak yang berhasil menggoda minat saya untuk menghasilkan sesuatu, kebanyakan h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66916900">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Two stories, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; told through the   eyes of a pair of contemporary young Japanese women, deal with the   themes of mothers, love, transsexuality, kitchens, and tragedy.   Reprint. <em>NYT. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Kitchen</em> isn't really a novel, but a novella (&quot;Kitchen&quot;) and a short story (&quot;Moonlight Shadow&quot;). Though I wasn't really prepared for this format at the outset, by the end it really makes quite perfect sense. Neither story is longer than it needs to be, and both dovetail quite nice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60117415">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Aku tak bisa tidur di tempat lain selain dapur.&quot;<br/><br/>Mikage Sakurai sebatang kara sejak neneknya meningal. dapur menjadi satu-satunya tempat dimana ia dikelilingi panci bekas pakai dan sisa ceceran sayur, serta ditemani sepetak langit malam berbintang di jendela.<br/><br/>namun dapur keluarga Tanabe yang membuatnya jatuh cinta. Di sana selama satu musim panas ia bergulat dengan acar, udon, soba, dan tempura. Di sana pula ia temukan apa yang tak pernah dimilikinya: keluarga, bersama Yuichi Tanabe yang dingin dan Eriko Tanabe yang mempesona--perempuan transeksual yang sejatinya ayah kandung Yuichi.<br/><br/>Ketika Eriko meninggal, Mikage dan Yuichi menjauh dan saling terasing dalam kesedihan. Apa yang harus mereka lakukan untuk bangkit dari dukacita dan menyadari ada cinta di antara mereka?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Saya menemukan buku ini pertama kali di MP Bookpoint. Desain kavernya langsung menyerap pehatian saya. Simple, hening, tapi tegas. Judulnya lalu membuat saya semakin ingin mengangkat buku itu dari display dan membaca sinopsisnya. Si editor buku ini hanya menuliskan tentang si tokoh utama yang diting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60884306">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a simple and alluring way this book covers all the basic themes of Japanese literature: loss and the renewal of the human will, the almost completely insurmountable distance between the hearts and minds of two people, the influence of the supernatural on the natural and the role of food in people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56408461">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[With the publication of &quot;Kitchen&quot;,the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. &quot;Kitchen&quot; is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, &quot;Kitchen&quot; and its companion story, &quot;Moonlight Shadow,&quot; are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such amazing food descriptions, I had to put this book down and make katsudon when I got to the end. Damn, that was a good katsudon. Currently working on the japanese text...already noticed several translating errors. Gosh the people who translate these things must really bang them out.]]></body>
    
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