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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller
Populated by unforgettable characters exploring what constitutes modern Japan, Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow are simple and effective, woven with rich themes of grief, beauty and identity.
"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
An orphan finds comfort in the kitchen, and in her chosen family, in this classic of contemporary Japanese literature
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly ear...
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