Kitchen, the debut novel by Banana Yoshimoto, tells the story of Mikage, a young woman left alone after the death of her grandmother who finds solace in her kitchen. When a university classmate invites her to live with him and his mother Eriko, Mikage begins a process of grief and reconstruction marked by the delicacy and melancholy characteristic of contemporary Japanese narrative.

Banana Yoshimoto is one of the most recognized voices in current Japanese literature; with this novel, written while she was a university student, she won the Kaien Newcomer Literary Prize in 1987 and the Izumi Kyōka Prize the following year.

• Publisher: Maxi Tusquets
• Author: Banana Yoshimoto
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 208
• Binding: Paperback
• Genre: Fiction / Japanese literature

Publisher: Maxi Tusquets · Shipping: Throughout Chile