Her father takaaki whose pen name was ryūmei was an intellectual.
Kitchen banana yoshimoto japanese. See also 吉本芭娜娜 chinese along with having a famous father poet takaaki yoshimoto banana s sister haruno yoiko is a well known cartoonist in japan. Banana yoshimoto japanese author who achieved worldwide popularity writing stories and novels with slight action and unusual characters. Kitchen is often published alongside yoshimoto s midnight shadow another novella about grief that yoshimoto wrote in 1986 based on a short story she wrote while at her university yoshimoto has published many novels that similarly deal with loss hope and urban alienation including her prize winning novels goodbye tsugumi 1989 and amrita 1994. Although one may notice a certain western influence in yoshimoto s style kitchen is still critically recognized as an example of contemporary japanese literature.
Banana yoshimoto s novels have made her a sensation in japan and all over the world and kitchen the dazzling english language debut that is still her best loved book is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers love tragedy and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free spirited young women in contemporary japan. See search results for this author. From 2002 to 2015 she wrote her name in hiragana よしもと ばなな. The chef du cuisine et amour is mikage sakurai a fetching young japanese woman barely more than a girl really who suddenly finds herself all alone in the world after the death of her grandmother the last of her remaining relatives.
Find all the books read about the author and more. Are you an author. She writes her name in hiragana. Banana yoshimoto s novels have created a sensation in japan and all over the world.
Yoshimoto was born in tokyo on july 24 1964 and grew up in a liberal family. Banana yoshimoto 吉本 ばなな yoshimoto banana born 24 july 1964 is the pen name of japanese writer mahoko yoshimoto 吉本 真秀子 yoshimoto mahoko. Yoshimoto was reared in a much freer environment than that of most japanese children. 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 and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary japanese literature.
Banana yoshimoto よしもと ばなな or 吉本 ばなな is the pen name of mahoko yoshimoto 吉本 真秀子 a japanese contemporary writer. Kitchen japanese edition japanese tankobon hardcover january 1 1988 by banana yoshimoto author visit amazon s banana yoshimoto page. So begins kitchen award winning author banana yoshimoto s culinary love story. Banana yoshimoto s kitchen and moonlight shadow are japanese novellas in which the protagonist is followed during their grieving period.