Accepting Fate and Inevitable Death in Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen and “Moonlight Shadow

When I lifted the oil splash gas stove and the rusted knife, the stars outside the window shone lonely. (3) Mikage is attracted and loves the kitchen which can not be explained. She copes with suffering and loneliness using her kitchen as her way and diverts her distracting attitude towards confrontation, but it is obvious that she alone can not fully satisfy her emptiness with only the kitchen. worry.

Yoshimoto banana's kitchen is an attractive and original deep influence to judge from the two stories of mother, love, tragedy, kitchen and family power in the life of two modern Japanese youthful women It is a book that I received. . Mikage, the hero of the "kitchen", is an orphan raised by the deceased's grandmother. Sadly, Mikaga was received by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was really his father's father). When three of them formed improvising families, they quickly fell into a tragic loss, and Yoshimoto spun a beautiful, exciting story in the comfort of the kitchen and the house . Remembering the whimsical style of the early Margaret Duras, the "kitchen" and its spouse's story "the shadow of the moonlight" seems to be a very special writer's trick whose voice lies in the soul and soul An elegant It is a story. reply

In her hometown of Japan, a famous 1960 New Left philosopher Yoshimoto Takaaki's daughter and famous cartoonist Yoko Haruno sister won a lot of praise. Her first work "Moonlight Shadow" won the Kyusen Izumi Prize in 1986 when I was waiting in Tokyo (in most cases, from her break to the interval between customers). In addition, it became the first novel of a novel by Japanese television movies and feature films. The kitchen was printed 60 times in Japan and translated in over 20 countries around the world.