Breasts and Eggs

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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 Prize (2008), the Murasaki Shikibu Literary Prize (2010) and the Tanizaki Prize (2013) among many other prestigious awards. . Read Haruki Murakami's piece in LitHub on Mieko Kawakami: https://lithub.com/haruki-murakami-on-his-favorite-young-novelist-mieko-kawakami/. Originally serialized on a hugely popular blog, then published as a novella, this expanded edition of Breasts & Eggs is an epic, unforgettable, and timely novel. The characters are all working-class women . Breasts & Eggs, the novella, sold 250, 000 copies in Japan. Breasts & Eggs, the novel, will be published in Japan in 2019. "9 Japanese Female Authors You Should Read." https://savvytokyo.com/9-japanese-female-authors-you-should-add-to-your-reading-list/. "Mieko Kawakami is Japan's Brightest New Literary Star." The Economist, https://www.economist.com/prospero/2018/10/09/mieko-kawakami-is-japans-brightest-new-literary-star