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008    920330s1993    nyu           000 1 eng   
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020    9780802142443 (pbk.) 
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050 00 PL865.O7138|bK5813 1993 
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100 1  Yoshimoto, Banana,|d1964- 
240 10 Kitchin.|lEnglish 
245 10 Kitchen /|cBanana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese
       by Megan Backus. 
260     London :|bFaber and Faber,|c1993. 
300    150 p. ;|c19 cm. 
500    Translation of: Kitchin. 
500    "Moolight shadow"--P. [107]-152. 
505 0  Kitchen -- Moonlight shadow. 
520    When Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen was first published in 
       Japan in 1988, "Banana-mania" seized the country. Kitchen 
       won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, 
       climbed its way to the top of the best-seller list, then 
       remained there for over a year and sold millions of 
       copies. With the appearance of the critically acclaimed 
       Tugumi (1989) and NP (1991), the Japanese literary world 
       realized that in Banana Yoshimoto it was confronted not 
       with a passing fluke but with a full-fledged phenomenon: a
       young writer of great talent and great passion whose work 
       has quickly earned a place among the best of twentieth-
       century Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is
       an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that 
       juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, 
       kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in
       the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in 
       contemporary Japan. Told in a whimsical style that recalls
       the early Marguerite Duras, "Kitchen" and its companion 
       story, "Moonlight Shadow," are elegant tales whose seeming
       simplicity is the ruse of a masterful storyteller. They 
       are the work of a very special new writer whose voice 
       echoes in the mind and the soul. 
650  0 Women|vFiction. 
650  0 Kitchens|vFiction. 
651  0 Japan|vFiction. 
655  0 Domestic fiction. 
655  0 Short stories. 
700 1  Backus, Megan. 
700 12 Yoshimoto, Banana,|d1964-|tMūnraito shadō.|lEnglish.