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Breasts and Eggs: A Novel by Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (translator), David Boyd (translator) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 their few 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 rec

Who reads Breasts and Eggs: A Novel?

Author

Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (translator), David Boyd (translator)

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609456702

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (2,845 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14