Breasts and Eggs
Kawakami Mieko
A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.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. 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 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...
ISBN: 9781529074413
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2023
