Лучшие произведения Миэко Каваками

A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.
On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, 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 Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another.
Eight years later, we meet Natsuko 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 English language debut from a major new international talent.

Действие рассказа происходит в безымянном городке, в глубокой провинции. У героини два имени: бывшее и новое, но читателям эти имена не сообщаются. Да и все остальные действующие лица тоже безымянны. Имя есть только у одного человека, но воспоминания о нём героиня полностью стерла из своей памяти.

A captivating short story "March Yarn" by Mieko Kawakami, which motivated the editors to name their book after this short story. "March Yarn," not only captures the hopes and dreams of the Japanese after 3.11, but also the anxiety from the situation they are in. To readers, it might seem that all the Japanese have a clear view of hope in their minds, but deep inside they are panicking knowing that not everything they imagine will go smoothly.