Japan

Kitchen
by Banana Yoshimoto

This short, original and funny story of grief, has a style of uplifting simplicity, like a drawing that suggests much with a few simple marks. It won its author Banana Yoshimito several literary prizes and was a bestseller for more than a year.

Translated by Megan Backus
Faber and Faber, 1994
First published in 1988
ISBN 9780571342723