![]() ![]() ![]() In 1992, her publisher extensively advertised the book in the U.S., thus catapulting her up the bestseller lists when it finally came out in 1993. Its naive rejection of the very question of whether it does or does not conform to conventional concepts is precisely what makes it strike me as a new sort of literature.” It was so well-received by the public that culture-watchers deemed the frenzy over the author and her works “Bananamania.” It is the product of an abandon completely indifferent to literary traditions. ![]() One of the judges, Nakamura Shin’ichiro, stated: “this is not a work written on a throne, and with a sensibility, that the older generation of which I am part could not have imagined. Kitchen earned Yoshimoto the Kaien Magazine New Writers’ Prize the year it was published. Published in 1987, it rapidly became a bestseller to date, it has sold 20 million copies. Kitchen is the novel that truly made Banana Yoshimoto, considered one of Japan’s most esteemed contemporary writers, famous and earned her the acclamation of critics and the public alike. ![]()
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