01754nam a22002177a 4500 20220420095523.0 220411b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781529074413 AL eng 23 895.636 KAWB Mieko Kawakami 29218 Breasts and eggs New York Picador 2021 430p. PB 20x13cm. General 6320 ₹429.00 ₹ ₹550.00 22% 8-03-2022 On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother’s self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko’s 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 find herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family’s 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. This is an unforgettable English language debut from a major new international talent. Literature Asian Languages 29219 Bett, Sam; Boyd, David; Tr. 29220 ddc BK 222347 222347 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAENG SACPG SACPG 2022-03-11 Biblios Book Point 429.00 3 895.636 KAWB PG023849 2026-01-19 14:40:03 2026-01-07 550.00 2022-03-08 BK