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VMC CLASSIC: THE DIARY OF A PROVINCIAL LADY. BOOKSTAGRAM SPOTLIGHT: MY PERSEPHONE BOOKS COLLECTION. BOOK REVIEW: THE GLORIOUS HERESIES BY LISA MCINERNEY. BOOK REVIEW: VINEGAR GIRL BY ANNE TYLER. TOP 5: NONFICTION BOOKS I WANT TO READ III. BOOK REVIEW: KITCHEN BY BANANA YOSHIMOTO. PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY: TREASURE ISLAND. I also think if you've read other Japanese authors and liked their work, this would suit you, as it has something to it that seems to only come out of the East. I would recommend this book if you like slow stories about life. I also love how the author manages to make ordinary life into something worth reading about by using beautiful language, which transforms it into something special. I especially loved how the author captured sadness and the thought of being alone. Though both were pretty good, I prefer the first one over the last, as I found I was much more connected to the characters in the first one. This book contains two different stories, one longer one (about 110 pages) and a short one (40 pages), but they deal with a lot of the same themes: life in the modern world, overpowering grief and love. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japans most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its. It is a startlingly original first work by Japans brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. Read more from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.Quite some time ago, I stumbled across this on Instagram and I just instantly felt like this was something I would like - and I was right, it was wonderful. Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting book. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. 
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay awake. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. "Asleep" tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep.
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