“One of Japan’s brightest stars is set to explode across the global skies of literature. Vogue・Thrillist・The Millions・ Literary Hub・Now Toronto・Metropolis Japan The newly expanded Breasts and Eggs is her first novel to be published in English. The following year, she published Breasts and Eggs as a short novella, and won praise from Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami. Kawakami’s first novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, published in Japan in 2007, was awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. On another hot summer’s day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko.

She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist.īreasts 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. “BREASTS AND EGGS took my breath away.”-HARUKI MURAKAMIĬhallenging 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. The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.

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