Breasts And Eggs: A Novel

byMieko KawakamiTranslated bySam Bett, David Boyd

April 2, 2021|
Breasts And Eggs: A Novel by Mieko Kawakami
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A BEST BOOK OF 2020
TIME MagazineThe AtlanticBook RiotElectric LiteratureThe New York Times (Notable Book of the Year)

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.

On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. The story of these three women reunited in a working-class neighborhood of Tokyo is told through the gaze of Natsu—thirty years old, an aspiring writer, haunted by hardships endured in her youth. Over the course of theirfew days together in the capital, Midoriko’s silence will prove a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and family secrets.

On yet another blistering summer’s day eight years later, Natsu, during a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless. 

One of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers, Mieko Kawakami mixes stylistic inventiveness, wry humor, and riveting emotional depth to tell a story of contemporary womanhood in Japan.Breasts and Eggs recounts the intimate journeys of three women on the path to finding peace and futures they can call their own.

“Original and deeply moving…This book is a gift.”—Laura van den Berg

Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel, Breasts and Eggs, aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year and one ofTIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020. Born in Osaka, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, in 2007. Her writing is known for...
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Title:Breasts And Eggs: A Novel
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:432 pages, 8.25 X 5.25 X 1.18 in
Shipping dimensions:432 pages, 8.25 X 5.25 X 1.18 in
Published:April 2, 2021
Publisher:Europa Editions
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781609456702

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