Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was hailed as a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of modern literature, and has been described as 'the voice of young Japan' by the Independent on Sunday.
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It’s so heartbreaking and heartwarming?!! A light at the end of grieving tunnel, if you will.
0favorite quotes (these are actually from "moonlight shadow" though):
* in retrospect i realize that fate was a ladder on which, at the time, i could not afford to miss a singe rung. to skip out on even one scene would have meant never making it to the top, although it would have been by far the easier choice.
* you might come to fear the next time you get a cold; it will be as bad as this, but if you just hold steady, it won’t be. for the rest of your life. that’s how it works. you could take the negative view and live in fear: will it happen again? but it won’t hurt so much if you just accept it as a part of life. [grief]
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