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Breasts and eggs / Kawakami Mieko ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

Breasts and eggs / Kawakami Mieko ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.
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ISBN 9781609455873 (hardback)
Name Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- author.
Title Breasts and eggs / Kawakami Mieko ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.
Published New York : Europa Editions, 2020.
©2019
Description 430 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary In earlier novella published in Japan with the same title focused on the female body, telling the story of three women: the thirty-year-old unmarried narrator, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Unable to come to terms with her changed body after giving birth, Makiko becomes obsessed with the prospect of getting breast enhancement surgery. Meanwhile, her twelve-year-old daughter Midoriko is paralysed by the fear of her oncoming puberty and finds herself unable to voice the vague, yet overwhelming anxieties associated with growing up. The narrator, who remains unnamed for most of the story, struggles with her own indeterminable identity of being neither a "daughter" nor a "mother." Set over three stiflingly hot days in Tokyo, the book tells of a reunion of sorts, between two sisters, and the passage into womanhood of young Midoriko.
Language note Translated from the Japanese.
Subjects Japanese fiction -- 20th century
Sisters -- Fiction
Coming of age -- Fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Genre Short stories
Other Names Bett, Sam, 1986- translator.
Boyd, David translator.
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