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From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen, comes a deeply haunting, heartwarming exploration of loneliness and painful memories set in Japan.'Po

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 i

‘Van alle plekken van de wereld houd ik denk ik het meest van de keuken. Het maakt niet uit waar hij staat of wat voor een het is, zolang het een

A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. "N.P." is the last collection of stories by a celebrated

Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into

There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's internationally cele

When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love, and Maria learn

A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sist

<b>'Van alle plekken van de wereld houd ik denk ik het meest van de keuken.</b> <p> <p> <b>Het maakt niet uit waar hi

Het is zomervakantie in Dogtown. Veel tijd om op adem te komen hebben de Underdogs echter niet, want Rocky heeft een ultra-intens trainingsschema voor

This collection examines the events of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics, both as a planetary event and a dual econ

Throughout twenty-seven years of military occupation, US public affairs activities aimed to persuade the local Okinawan public that the US administrat