Moonlight follows a similar storyline of grief and loss. And, in the kitchen, Yuichi and Mikage are on the journey to feel the unintentional yet the purest form of love. The vegetable knife, shining tiles of the kitchen, and even the dry and immaculate towels have a special place in their lonely lives. They feel an attachment with every object in the kitchen. Both lose their dear ones to be left alone in the world and find solace in the kitchen.
Similarly, her schoolfellow, Yuichi Tanabe, also faces the same sorrow. Mikage takes solace in her kitchen when her grandmother dies, leaving her all alone in the world. This book contains two novellas, Kitchen and Moonlight Shadows, both recounting the personal tragedies faced by two young female protagonists, Mikage from Kitchen and Satsuki from Moonlight Shadow.īoth the girls bearing the loss of their dear ones find relief in true love and devotion from their closest male characters in the novellas. A powerful combination of loss, death, love, and hope, this novel is a poetic delve. This book works as a healer to those who have lost their dear ones to death.
Here are the best Banana Yoshimoto books that you must read and why.īanana has unparalleled skill in transforming ordinary scenes into magical moments. She has also won the Umitsubame First Novel Prize and the 16th Izumi Kyoka Literary Prize.Īccording to Banana, writing comes to her “almost as natural as breathing.” In the literary societies of Japan, Banana is known as Healing-Kei, i.e. The novel was a hit and she received the Izumi Kyoka Prize from her university. When she published her first novel Moonlight Shadow she was a student at Nihon University Art College and was waitressing at a country club. Most of her novels present an independent woman as a protagonist who overcomes the tragedies and traumas of life. She is liberal in her views, stands for human rights, and has been an advocate for women rights in Japan. Banana received the 39th edition Best Newcomer Artists award for this novel on Japanese government’s recommendation.īorn to a famous poet, philosopher, literary critic Takaaki Yoshimoto, Banana found solace in literature from early childhood, which influenced her desire to become a writer.
A Hong Kong film and a TV show also feature this novel’s story. Banana Yoshimoto is a Japanese contemporary writer famous for her best novel Kitchen that sold more than one million copies worldwide.
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