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Astrid Lim
May 27, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: short-stories, asia, e-book, japanese
Such a heartbreaking but also beautiful stories about grief, regrets, friendship, and love. Banana Yoshimoto is one of the earlier novelists in the 80-90s who brought Japanese literature to the global stage. Kitchen is such a classics, even though consisted of three shorter stories (two are related and one is not), it still has this depth character development, intricate nuances, and lots of cultural references that made you missed Japan terribly.
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Ann
May 31, 2020 rated it liked it
Banana is eloquent at writing about loss but the references to transwomen could be phrased better.
Moonlight Shadow was sparse and much better.
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Pam
Jan 14, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction, 2019-books-read, japan
AUTHOR Yoshimoto, Banana
TITLE Kitchen
DATE READ 01/13/19
RATING 5/A
FIRST SENTENCE The place I like best in the world is the kitchen.
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/1988/Washington Sq Press / 150 pgs
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE GR Around the World - Japan; Alphabet Author - Y; GR January "New" -- new to me author 3/2; GR Around to it 2/3; GR 2019 Reading Goal 5/111
GROUP READ Chosen from my TBR by Book Obssessed for January
CHARACTERS Kitchen: Mikagie Sakurai and Yuichi Tanabe; Moonlight ...more
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Deedee
May 28, 2020 rated it did not like it
Shelves: asian-literature, translation, world-asia-japan, literary-fiction, did-not-finish, read2020x-did-not-finish
Not for me. None of the characters were relatable for me. I read the first 30 pages and skimmed the rest.
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mstan
Jun 09, 2007 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: translation, asian
Jennifer
Aug 05, 2007 rated it really liked it
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Vicky
May 03, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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May 28, 2010 rated it really liked it
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Jan 07, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Jul 19, 2025 rated it really liked it
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Amanda
Dec 26, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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Jan 10, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Rachel
Jan 29, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Oct 15, 2017 rated it really liked it
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Stacey
Apr 17, 2021 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: atw-2021
Jen
Jun 08, 2021 marked it as to-read
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