I picked up this book because I wanted something different and indeed I found it when reading Kitchen by Japanese writer, Banana Yoshimoto.

It contains two short stories mainly about the loss of loved ones. It deals with the emotions of it all and human relations in a strange way that I am not familiar with which I found intriguing maybe because of the Japanese culture or something got lost in translation.

I became familiar with a new word, nostalgic and nostalgia,  it is widely used in this small book. I’m not sure if it was a direct translation of a single Japanese word used originally by the writer or it is the closest translation to different synonyms in Japanese that the author wrote.

It is a very light book and refreshing that I do recommend to read.