Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

Sam Bett (Translator) and David Boyd (Translator)

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1609455878
  • ISBN13 9781609455873
  • Publish Date 7 April 2020 (first published 28 July 2016)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Europa Editions
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English