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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 w...

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From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan. 'Polished, concise, emotionally rewarding.' Daily Mail 'Reading Banana Yoshimoto is ...

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A poignant tragedy that is turned into a poignant coming-of-age ghost story, Yoshimoto pays a life-affirming homage to the healing powers of family, food and community.

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Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life A New York Times Not...

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At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesita...

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"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut th...

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Asleep tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay aw...

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A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses m...

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A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. N.P. is the last collection of stories by a celebrated Japanese writer, written in English while she was living in Boston.

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There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's internationally celebrated storyteller returns with five stories of healing and hope. Effortlessly beautiful, nost...

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"Entering Banana Yoshimoto's fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo--everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner. . . . Amrita is difficult to forget." --San Francisco Ch...

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"Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation's literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and wonderfully fresh." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Banana Yo...

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Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen. In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of thr...

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In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto's warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in ...

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In this “witty, perceptive novel”, a young woman moves to Tokyo and encounters the world of university enrollment and impending adulthood (Elle).   Banana Yoshimoto’s novels of young life in Japan have made her an internatio...

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The acclaimed debut of Japan’s “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).   With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Bana...

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A pair of thematically linked novellas from the acclaimed author of Lizard, Amrita, and Goodbye Tsugumi.   In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt d...

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Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life First published in Japan in 2003 and...

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The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth Yayoi, a ninetee...

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Winner of the Tanizaki Prize in 2022, her latest short story collection from 2021, Mittens and Pity is what Yoshimoto calls the greatest achievement of her writing life since Dead-End Memories Set between Kanazawa, Helsinki, Taipei, Rome, Hon...

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Die Zwillingsschwestern Mimi und Kodachi haben in Tokyo ein neues Leben begonnen, seit ihre Mutter in der Heimatstadt zwischen Bergen und Meer der Schlafkrankheit verfallen ist. Auf dem abgelegenen Ort lastet eine dunkle Sage. Eines Tages, als Kod...

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Als Mikage ihre Großmutter verliert, ist sie vollkommen allein in der großen Wohnung. Nur in der Küche, wo sie das Brummen des Kühlschranks in den Schlaf wiegt, kommt sie zur Ruhe. Aus ihrer Einsamkeit holt sie Yuichi. Er schlägt ihr vor, zu ihm u...

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Im Zentrum des Romans stehen junge Menschen voller Lebenshunger und Sehnsucht nach Liebe. N.P. Kitchen

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Schlafsucht, Alkohol, geheimnisvolle Begegnungen - drei Geschichten von der Nacht und vom Wiedererwachen aus tiefem Schlaf, drei Geschichten über Frauen, deren Herzen und Seelen nicht zur Ruhe kommen. »Diese drei Geschichten sind sozusagen Geschwi...

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Wie der längst zum Kultbuch gewordene Roman Kitchen Amrita Wahl Amrita ist eine Odyssee durch die heftigsten Turbulenzen des Seelenlebens zu Selbstfindung und neuem Glück, und es ist vor allem eines: eine wunderschöne Hommage an das Leben. Es is...

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Wie verfallen sie ihrem Geliebten war, spürt Hotaru erst, als dieser nach acht Jahren die Beziehung plötzlich beendet. Hotaru steht vor dem Nichts. Erst in ihrer Heimatstadt, umgeben von Vertrauten und neuen Freunden, die alle einen besonderen Dra...

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Der rote Faden dieser poetischen Geschichten, die alle mit seelischen Umbrüchen und Grenzsituationen zu tun haben: Manche Gewissheiten kann nur der Körper vermitteln, und er tut es heilsam und hellsichtig.

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Yumikos Vergangenheit birgt ein Geheimnis, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Cousin Shôichi möchte sie den Schlüssel dazu finden. Ihre Nacht

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Nach einem schweren Unfall und dem Tod ihres Geliebten ist Sayoko nicht mehr sie selbst. Sie hat Geheimnisse der unsichtbaren Welt erfahren. In der Tempelstadt Kyoto lernt sie das Leben so zu akzeptieren, wie es ist: voller Ungewissheiten und Räts...

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