Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 adventurer and local legend –

adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale

they must decide whether or not to act on them

So when she decides to throw her own living wake

heartfelt and lyrical' PETINA GAPPAH

Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Groundswell Speaker 2024 adventurer and local legend –A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. 'Breath taking' Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Woo A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors'. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. On a hot summers day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty year old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makikos