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Mieko Kawakami Breasts and Eggs

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Don’t let the title fool you. The long-awaited English translation of Mieko Kawakami’s novel “Breasts and Eggs” is not some elevated, literary piece of Japanese chick lit. It’s a novel of humanity, a multifaceted consideration of the fundamental question: What does it mean to exist?

That Kawakami considers the idea and all its implications from a mostly female viewpoint, covering contemporary issues such as sex work, single motherhood, beauty and gender norms, societal isolation and meaningful vocation does not diminish its universality. It heightens it.

Catching up with Kawakami over a video call from her office in Tokyo, she says, “While it’s true that this is a story about the life of one woman … it’s ultimately a story of people, living life through tears.”

It’s an attitude Kawakami knows well. Raised in a single-mother household in Osaka, it’s no wonder she can construct such an abrasively realistic version of Japan in her fiction, a trait she shares with an oft-cited influence, Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-96). Like Higuchi, Kawakami grew up a few steps from destitution, always looking in at more financially stable worlds.

“I’m part of the ‘lost generation’,” she says. “People who were born after the ’70s in Japan. Both men and women of this generation have a hard time living a normal life. They can’t get married, can’t find work, can’t have kids. It’s not out of choice, but because it’s financially impossible. Even if they work hard, they can only earn about ¥140,000 a month, and that’s impossible to support a family.”

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Creation Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:33:32 +0000
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