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Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto Main edition
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies.
160 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 29, 2000 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571171040 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 115 × 177 × 12 mm · 92 g |
| Language | English |
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