Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami (หนังสือภาษาอังกฤษ)

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

หนังสือนิยายภาษาอังกฤษมือหนึ่ง ของแท้ถูกลิขสิทธิ์ พร้อมจัดส่ง

ประเภท: ปกอ่อน
จำนวนหน้า: 432 หน้า
ISBN: 9781529074413

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. Shes 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 full length English language debut from a major international talent.