--- product_id: 99794210 title: "Kitchen" price: "AED 62" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/99794210-kitchen store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Kitchen **Price:** AED 62 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Kitchen - **How much does it cost?** AED 62 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/99794210-kitchen) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Kitchen - Kindle edition by Yoshimoto, Banana. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Kitchen. Review: Phenomenal and Heart-Wrenching - This book is so good! Yoshimoto creates such a visceral description of grief, love, and the challenges and various emotions of life. I thoroughly enjoyed both of the stories included in the book and highly recommend reading them at least once. Review: Good read! - Good book. Slice of real life. Not the most exciting, but that's not the point of the book. I read it, then gifted a copy to my older sister for Christmas. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B07KPWGBKV | | Accessibility | Learn more | | Best Sellers Rank | #107,920 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #792 in Family Life Fiction (Kindle Store) #949 in Contemporary Literary Fiction #1,520 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (3,166) | | Enhanced typesetting | Enabled | | File size | 2.2 MB | | ISBN-13 | 978-0802190468 | | Language | English | | Page Flip | Enabled | | Print length | 164 pages | | Publication date | November 20, 2018 | | Publisher | Grove Press | | Screen Reader | Supported | | Word Wise | Enabled | | X-Ray | Not Enabled | ## Images ![Kitchen - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71xE-XUO50L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Phenomenal and Heart-Wrenching *by A***R on January 22, 2026* This book is so good! Yoshimoto creates such a visceral description of grief, love, and the challenges and various emotions of life. I thoroughly enjoyed both of the stories included in the book and highly recommend reading them at least once. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good read! *by C***I on October 19, 2025* Good book. Slice of real life. Not the most exciting, but that's not the point of the book. I read it, then gifted a copy to my older sister for Christmas. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Comfort Food *by D***R on December 30, 2009* Mikage Sakurai has had an uncertain childhood, losing both her parents while she was very young and being raised by her grandparents. Her grandfather, too, died when she was entering junior high. A few years later her grandmother dies leaving her alone, without any family. As Mikage is contemplating what to do next, Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate who helped out at her grandmother's funeral, visits her. He invites Mikage to come stay with him and his "mother." Yuichi's mother Eriko turns out to be a transgendered former male (Yuichi's father). She works in a nightclub. With no particular plan or direction, Mikage decides to take up the offer and spends long days alone contemplating the ceiling while Yuichi is at class and Eriko away at work or sleeping. Mikage adjusts to life at the Tanabe's and comes to value the friendship of these odd, nonconforming Japanese. Yuichi is moody and depressive, a needy soul who becomes deeply attached to Mikage's friendship. Eriko's style is high camp. She loves making frivolous purchases, especially electronic gadgets. Eriko loves Mikage with a kind of offbeat quasi-maternal affection. The household is shocked when Eriko is killed, murdered at the nightclub where she works. While she is staying at the Tanabe's Mikage purchases a set of instruction books on cooking and immerses herself in a serious attempt to become a skilled cook. After Eriko's death, when she comes back to the Tanabe apartment and spends a few days with Yuichi, she prepares an enormous meal of numerous courses, which they devour over several hours. Not long after Eriko's death, Mikage finds a dream job as an assistant to a well-known culinary author and television personality. She is asked to accompany the sensei and other staff on a trip to Izu Peninsula to sample the local cuisine. Mikage jumps at the chance. Mikage leaves for Izu, but once there she phones Yuichi who has gone to an inn not far from Izu to be alone. He complains about the food at the inn, which consists entirely of tofu dishes. Mikage happens on a katsudon shop where the specialty is exquisitely prepared. On an impulse, she orders an extra portion to go, hails a cab and makes a lengthy trip to Yuichi's inn. He is surprised, eats the katsudon and declares it to be the best he has every tasted. Before she leaves to ride the waiting cab back to Izu, Mikage tells him obliquely that she would like their relationship to grow and deepen. When she returns, Mikage receives a phone call from Yuichi who has gone to great pains to find out where she is staying. He asks her for her time of return to Tokyo and the platform where her train will arrive, promising to meet her. On this upbeat, optimistic note the story closes. Kitchen is a GenX novel, its youthful characters severed from traditional relationships: family, marriage, career. In their place, they form deep, if not necessarily permanent, bonds of friendship, based on mutual help and acceptance between people struggling to get by in a fragmented world. The kitchen serves as a symbol of peace and comfort, a place where Mikage can forget the difficulties that she faces and lose herself in her artistic creation. It also brings together the disparate personalities in a union based on shared enjoyment of food. Banana Yoshimoto handles this with great warmth and sensitivity. Her short debut novel makes for a touching, uplifting read. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/99794210-kitchen](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/99794210-kitchen) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-05-17*