Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto "favors short novels that gradually reveal thin, almost translucent layers of her characters' personalities," as a critic for Publishers Weekly once explained. The author has become a worldwide phenomenon, with millions...
Kitchen （キッチン）is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (よしもとばなな）in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus. Although one may notice a certain Western influence in Yoshimoto's style, Kitchen is...
ROBERT ALEXANDER. Viking, $23.95 (240p) ISBN 0-670-031 78-X The Romanovs are arguably second only to Jack the Ripper as objects of literary speculation. The story of their last days, their possible escape and the final resting place of the $500 million in...
The pleasures of the table are one of the joys of travel. But new foods and new flavors can become favorites fast - leaving one desolate at moving on. Last June I stood for a long time in front of the display...
Food Prep GadgetsOne summer of my misspent youth, I worked as a galley slave at an island inn off the New England coast, beginning each day with a peeler in hand and an inexhaustible supply of potatoes. Even at the time, this seemed disappointingly low-tech,...
On a recent afternoon in a small apartment in the East Village, several students from The French Culinary Institute gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July. One of them, 29-year-old Reinaldo Faberlle, was holding a large, vodka-infused watermelon. While his friends looked on, munching on...
"Weeping Tears of Nostalgia," in The New York Review of Books, Vol. XL, No. 14, August 12, 1993, pp. 29-30. Buruma is a Dutch-born critic who has written several nonfiction works on Asian culture. In the following excerpt, he claims that Kitchen draws upon aspects of traditional Japanese literature and current popular tastes.
Grimson is an American novelist and short story writer. In the following review, he perceives a youthful, innocent quality and an emphasis on family life as both the strengths and weaknesses of Kitchen.
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