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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
If you are unfamiliar with her, all of Yoshimoto's work deals with grief on some level. In every single book someone has died in some way. They are all exceptionally different, and all exceptional as works of Japanese literature. It is definitely my favorite style and it is always different from Western writing.
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Yoshimoto was entirely new to me. Which would you say is your favorite book of hers? It would be interesting to follow up
Kitchen with a later work (I think
Kitchen and the additional novella,
Moonlight Shadow, were her first?)