Kitchen Fyodor Dostoevsky a crumbling luxury tower in

a crumbling luxury tower in Island City where Silvia’s aunt Ena serves as the superintendent

As they grapple with years marred by adolescent angst

The result is a book that feels as much like a love letter as it does an elegy—an ode to a woman often overshadowed by the man she loved

set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars

Kitchen Fyodor Dostoevsky a crumbling luxury tower inWith the publication of Kitchen, her dazzling English language debut, Banana Yoshimoto quickly established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Japanese literature. This beloved book pairs two interconnected stories that explore grief, love, and the quiet power of home in the lives of young women in modern Japan. The title story follows Mikage, a young woman left alone after the death of the grandmother who raised her. As she