![]() ![]() Both stories see the protagonists grapple with their tragedies and grief, but they are also very much about hope and love. ![]() In Moonlight Shadow, a different young woman loses her lover in an accident. ![]() Loss is the main theme in Kitchen, as well as in its companion story: In the first, a young woman struggles to overcome the passing of her grandmother, her last living relative. What struck me the most about Yoshimoto’s simple tales is how, despite (or perhaps because of?) her airy, even whimsical prose, the most ordinary scenes took on a dreamlike, eerie quality that somehow made them seem like the most profound of epiphanies. Kitchen collects the titular novella, as well as a short story titled Moonlight Shadow, partly inspired by the Mike Oldfield song of the same name. Year of publication: 1988 (translated into English in 1993) Title: Kitchen (original Japanese title: キッチン) ![]()
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