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Kitchen Study Guide

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by Banana Yoshimoto
About 56 pages (16,764 words)
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Kitchen Study Guide consists of approx. 56 pages of summaries and analysis on Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. Browse the literature study guide below:

  Introduction

  Author Biography

  Plot Summary

  Chapter Summaries & Analysis

Two different, yet similarly themed titles comprise Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto's debut literary effort. The first, the titular Kitchen, is the tale of Mikage Sakurai, a girl who, having recently lost her grandmother and having no other living relatives, moves in with the Tanabe family; Yuichi and his transsexual 'mother'. The second story chronicles the suffering of a young woman, Satsuki, after her lover is killed in a car accident. (read more)
      Part 1, Kitchen
      Part 2, Full Moon
      Moonlight Shadow

  Characters

  Themes

  Style

  Historical Context

  Critical Overview

  Criticism

      Critical Essay #1
      Critical Essay #2
      Critical Essay #3
      Critical Essay #4

  Topics for Further Study

  Compare & Contrast

  What Do I Read Next?

  For Further Study

  Sources

  Copyright Information

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    Deborah Garrison
    SOURCE: "Day-O!" in The New Yorker, Vol. LXVIII, No. 49, January 25, 1993, pp. 109-10 In the followi... more

    Critical Review by Scott Shibuya Brown
    SOURCE: "Adrift in the New Japan," in Book World—The Washington Post, January 10, 1993, p. 8. A jo... more


     
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