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Breasts and eggs

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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.

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Series Title

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Call Number

823 KAW b

Publisher

USA : Europa Editions., 2021

Collation

448 p. ; 21 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781609456702

Classification

800

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Subject(s)

Fiction
Feminism
Contemporary
Japanese Literature
Literary Fiction
Asian Literature

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Level

High School

Book Segment

Select -- Reading for pleasure -- Program Reference

Reading Level

Independent

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