Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami general fiction the lost promise of more

the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel's title

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Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami general fiction the lost promise of more'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 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 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