Name: Breasts and Eggs
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Author: Mieko Kawakami
ISBN: 9781529074413

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Physical Book

Author

Mieko Kawakami

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781529074413

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami (Author) · Pan Macmillan · Paperback

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Synopsis "Breasts and Eggs"

'Breathtaking' – Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian WoodA New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' 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 find 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 Times

Mieko Kawakami

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(Osaka, Kawakami, 1976) es autora del best-seller internacional Pechos y huevos, elegido como uno de los libros del año en The New York Times y uno de los 10 mejores libros de 2020 en TIME. Hizo su debut literario como poeta en 2006 y publicó su primera novela, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, en 2007. Su literatura ha sido alabada por el tono poético con el que aborda temas como el cuerpo femenino, las cuestiones éticas y los dilemas de la sociedad moderna. Sus obras han sido traducidas a diferentes idiomas y ha recibido numerosos premios literarios en Japón, como el Premio Akutagawa, el Premio Tanizaki y el Premio Murasaki Shikibu. Vive en Tokio, Japón.

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