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About Breasts And Eggs: A Novel
Product Description The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE. “Breasts and Eggs took my breath away.”—HARUKI MURAKAMI A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020Vogue・Thrillist・The Millions・ Literary Hub・Now Toronto・Metropolis Japan Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist. 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. Kawakami’s first novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, published in Japan in 2007, was awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. The following year, she published Breasts and Eggs as a short novella, and won praise from Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami. The newly expanded Breasts and Eggs, already hailed as a “feminist masterwork” (Entertainment Weekly), is her first novel to be published in English. “Mieko Kawakami’s first full-scale novel to be translated from Japanese into English reveals what a Catherine Wheel of talent she is, how unplaceable and unique. How forceful. […] The way she moves among her characters here will make clear why Breasts and Eggs is the Makioka Sisters of its time.”—John Freeman in Literary Hub “Mieko Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with Breasts and Eggs.”—The Economist Review “A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman, in Japan and beyond.”—TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A stunning work of iridescence, changing with the light. For good reason this promises to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year.”—Financial Times “A bracing, feminist exploration of daily life in Japan.”—Entertainment Weekly “Not just some elevated piece of literary chick-lit. [Breasts and Eggs is] a novel of humanity, a multifaceted consideration of the fundamental question: What does it mean to exist? [. . .] A street-smart, distinctly Osakan empathy reverberates throughout this perpetually surprising, cleverly spiraling novel.”—The Japan Times ““Kawakami, in her first book to be published in English, considers the agency that women exert over their bodies and charts the emotional underpinnings of physical changes—both intentional and unbidden—with humor and empathy.”—The New Yorker “Kawakami’s timely feminist themes; strange, surreal prose; and wonderful characters will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers.”—The New York Observer “Kawakami’s narrative is bracing and evocative, tender yet unflinching in depicting the relationship between the sisters and between mother and daughter.”—Publishers Weekly “Kawakami writes frankly about the mix of envy, admiration, scorn, and devotion that women feel towards each other.”—Jennifer Schaffer, The Baffler “The book is so much about the body. If you are craving a novel that really describes a woman’s body so well, jus
