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Breasts and Eggs
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Publisher's Summary
On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-year-old Natsu, 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 Natsu’s rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another.
Ten years later, we meet Natsu again. She is now a writer and finds 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 full-length English-language debut from a major new international talent.
Critic Reviews
"Breathtaking." (Haruki Murakami, international best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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- Anusha
- 14-05-23
A unique novel exploring womanhood
A well narrated novel that selves into the various contours of a woman’s existence. In a cast of characters mostly composed of women, the novel explores many sensitive themes with great intuitiveness and perception. It’s quite refreshing
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- Zorini Lungṭau
- 25-04-21
Breasts and Eggs
Loved it from the start till the end. Thank you, Meiko Kawakami and the brilliant narrators.
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