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Breasts and Eggs

Von: Mieko Kawakami
Gesprochen von: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
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On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-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. 

©2020 Mieko Kawakami (P)2020 W F Howes Belletristik Familienleben Frauenliteratur
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"Breathtaking." (Haruki Murakami, international best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
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Book 1 does a great job stylistically carving out traumatized sisters, showing from a distance the mania with which the one sister is fixated on breast augmentation. This distance gives room to experience this mania from the perspective of social critique. Book 2 on the other hand suffocates us with a never ending research monologue of child bearing by the second sister. The author leaves us no distance here and you will have to listen to 12 hours of research on fertilization with no pointe. The ending is foreseeable and just a depressingly narrow minded perspective on women. I don’t think this is a cultural thing - Japan may live with many taboos around these issues, but a great book is not defined by giving never ending he said she said monologues about them.

A book that wants to tackle clichés and dies in them instead.

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I am donor conceived myself and I do not like this book at all. It is well written and well spoken. But the main character is self-righteous and egoistic. In the first part she is busy judging her sister for wanting a breast augmentation. The second part is about her wanting to have a child despite being single. She knows that donor conceived people often have it difficult and in the beginning she tries to learn more. Then she befriends a donor conceived person and tries to get the moral absolution to do what she has already decided on anyway. The end is completely unrealistic yet foreseeable. As long as she gets what she wants, no matter the cost to others. Additionally, there is absolutely unnecessary transphobia in the book that doesn’t even add to the storyline.

Self-righteous

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