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Mieko Kawakami

Breasts and Eggs

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A novel that “considers the agency . . . women exert over their bodies and charts the emotional underpinnings of physical changes . . . with humor and empathy” (The New Yorker).
On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. Over the course of their few days together in the capital, Midoriko’s silence will prove a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and family secrets.
On yet another summer’s day eight years later, Natsu, during a journey back to her native city, confronts her anxieties about growing old alone and childless.
Bestselling author Mieko Kawakami mixes stylistic inventiveness and riveting emotional depth to tell a story of contemporary womanhood in Japan.
“Took my breath away.” —Haruki Murakami, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with Breast and Eggs.” —The Economist
“A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman.” —TIME
“Raw, funny, mundane, heartbreaking.” —The Atlantic
“A bracing, feminist exploration of daily life in Japan.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Timely feminist themes; strange, surreal prose; and wonderful characters will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers.” —The New York Observer
“Bracing and evocative, tender yet unflinching.” —Publishers Weekly
“Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body—its discomforts, its appetites, its smells and secretions. And she is especially good at capturing its longings.” —The New York Times Book Review
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468 бумажных страниц
Дата публикации оригинала
2020
Год выхода издания
2020
Издательство
Europa Editions
Переводчики
David Boyd, Sam Bett
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Цитаты

  • Ivonaцитируетв прошлом году
    It was every face of Makiko I’d ever known—the one who laughed and cried with me, who ran up to greet me the second she saw me, who sat in the park in her uniform and rode off on her bike, who shut her eyes tight and cried through the entire wake, who took money straight out of her pay envelope to buy me new indoor shoes for school, who sat there, all alone, in her hospital bed after giving birth to her daughter, who was always there for me—every side of her was smiling now.
  • Sara Molnarцитирует3 дня назад
    like when you’re folding up a bedsheet and its top and bottom edges come together.
  • Sara Molnarцитирует3 дня назад
    It felt like the whole room was throbbing to the beating of my heart.

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