Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus,
Genre:
Japan
Release Date:
1993
Pages:
150
When Kitchen was published in 1987, it was regarded as a radical new addition to the canon of Japanese writing. The fact that it was written by a woman, and a young woman at that, made the book even more of a talking point. In terms of writing from the Orient, it wasn’t like anything that preceded it, or succeeded it, given the gamut of books
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