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乳と卵

Novel

by 川上未映子

( 11 ratings, 2 reviews )

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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 her daughter, 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, provi...

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Page Count:

138

ISBN:

4163270108

ISBN13:

9784163270104

Winner of the Akutagawa prize

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(3.36/5)

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Myriasays

May 16, 2021

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I finally finished this book!

The book is comprised of two stories, 乳と卵 (80%) and あなたたちの恋愛は瀕死 (20%). It’s really short, about 140 pages, so I should’ve been able to finish it in a few days, but the second story failed to catch me at first, so I took my time. It did get easier to read at the end, though.

Both stories were very interesting and had some interesting themes that got me thinking. You get an interesting perspective into difficult family dynamics. The endings of both st

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January 6, 2022

Bought this after having already read 夏物語, not knowing it is pretty much exactly the first chapter/part of that book. A bunch of it word for word. So it's good, but was totally redundant for me. I'd say just go for 夏物語 instead, unless you want to keep to short books, in which case this is just 120 pages.

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July 16, 2022

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