A beautiful new edition celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.

Kitchen juxtaposes two stories about mothers, transsexuality, grief, kitchens, love, and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is an astonishingly original debut work from Japan's brightest young literary talent and has since become a cult film. When Kitchen was published in Japan in 1987, it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, topped the bestseller lists, and remained there for over a year, selling millions of copies. Banana Yoshimoto was celebrated as a young writer with great talent and passion, whose work quickly secured a place among the best of modern literature and was described by the Independent on Sunday as "the voice of young Japan."

Banana Yoshimoto was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep, and Goodbye Tsugumi. Her works have won numerous awards worldwide.