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Breasts and eggs / Mieko Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

川上未映子, By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Picador, 2020.Description: 430 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781529054224 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Breasts & eggs
Uniform titles: 夏物語. English Uniform titles:
  • Natsumonogatari. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 895.636 23
LOC classification:
  • PL872.5.A89 N3813 2020
Other classification:
  • 913.6
Summary: "Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer's day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless" --
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Originally published in Japan as Natsumonogatari.

"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. On another hot summer's day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless" --

Translated from the Japanese.

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