Mieko Kawakami Breasts & Eggs Paperback Book

The bestselling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.&#39Breathtaking&#39 &ndash Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian WoodA New York Times &#39Notable Book of the Year&#39 and one of Elena Ferrante&#39s &#39Top 40 Books by Female Authors&#39. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. On a hot summer&rsquos day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women thirtyyearold Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko&rsquos teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She&#39s accompanied by her daughter, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother&rsquos selfobsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko&rsquos 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&rsquos 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. Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.&#39Bold,... | Mieko Kawakami Breasts & Eggs Paperback Book