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 find
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 full length English
language debut from a major new international talent.
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