Breasts and Eggs

CD - unabridged
(13 CDs)
Product Number: CX6654
Released: 01 Dec, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781004020034
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, 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 Natsu’s rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Ten years later, we meet Natsu again. She is now a writer and finds 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 new international talent.

Author(s): Mieko Kawakami
Original Publish Date: 01 Dec, 2020

All Formats/Editions

MP3 CD
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Author(s): Mieko Kawakami
Product Number MPCD5371
Released: 01 Dec, 2020
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004020058
Playaway
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Author(s): Mieko Kawakami
Product Number D6773
Released: 01 Dec, 2020
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004020041

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