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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a deeply moving and magnificently observed story about a young woman searching for meaning.

FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit HubBestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freel...

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?Mieko Kawakami is a genius' Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a fourteen-year-old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going thr...

Shy, lonely and introverted Fuyuko lives alone and fills her days with her job as a freelance proofreader. About to turn thirty-five, she cannot imagine ever having any emotional or successful relationship in her life as it currently stands. She is regularly haunted by encounters of the past.But Fuyuko loves the light and goes out on the night of her birthday, Christmas Eve, to count the lights.Her only friend, Hijiri, offers some light in her...

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A strange and beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo, from Japan's most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami

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The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE. "Breasts and Eggs took my breath away."-HARUKI MURAKAMI A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020 Vogue·Thrillist·The Millions· Literary Hub·Now Toronto·Metropolis Japan Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japa...

A New York Times book to watch'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami'Radical' Katie Kitamura'Uncommon precision' Yoko Ogawa'Bold, modern and surprising' An YuOn 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 accompanie...

TARGET CONSUMER Fans of Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs Readers of the best contemporary Japanese fiction: Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Yoko Tawada, etc. The stories of working-class women are often at the center of Kawakami's novels, as such she is also reminiscent of authors like Lucia Berlin, Stepheni Danler (Sweetbitter), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joy Williams, George Saunders Blurbs solicited from Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Hisayo Buchan...

TARGET CONSUMER:. Literary Fiction. Female protagonists, motherhood, the female body. Contemporary Japanese Fiction >. For fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Jia Tolentino, Lucia Berlin, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, and Sex Object by Jessica Valenti. First of a three-book deal at auction (Frankfurt Book Fair 2018), with Heaven (Europa, 2021) and The Night Belongs to Lovers (Europa, 2021). Author is winner of the Akutagawa Pr...

What a Catherine wheel of talent she is, how unplaceable and unique.' John Freeman, Lit Hub'Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction' The EconomistOn a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo, two sisters are reunited when the elder, Makiko, travels to the city in search of breast-enhancement surgery accompanied by her sullen and silent teenage daughter, Midoriko. Over the course of their t...