Breasts and Eggs

Breasts and Eggs

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Kawakami, Mieko
Macmillan Publishers International
EAN: 9781529074413
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'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian WoodA beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors'On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery.

She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again.

She is now a writer and finds herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future. In Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami paints a radical and intimate portrait of contemporary working class womanhood in Japan, recounting the heartbreaking journeys of three women in a society where the odds are stacked against them. This is an unforgettable English language debut from a major new international talent.

'Bold, modern and surprising' - An Yu, author of Braised Pork'Incredible and propulsive' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesShortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

EAN 9781529074413
ISBN 152907441X
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Macmillan Publishers International
Publication date June 30, 2021
Pages 432
Language English
Dimensions 196 x 130 x 30
Readership General
Authors KAWAKAMI, MIEKO
Translators Bett, Sam; Boyd, David
Edition Main Market Ed.

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