Name: Brüste und Eier
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ISBN: 9783832165994

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On a hot summer day, thirty-year-old Natsuko is visited by her older sister Makiko and her niece Midoriko in Tokyo. Tokyo is the city Natsuko came to as a young woman to start a new life as a writer, Osaka the place she left behind. There, her sister works as a hostess: a woman who keeps men company with alcohol, food, and karaoke. Makiko, struggling with her aging body, is obsessed with getting a breast augmentation. Meanwhile, her twelve-year-old daughter Midoriko is overwhelmed by the onset of puberty. Unable to communicate her fears and desires in a society that makes everything intimate taboo, she falls completely silent. And the asexual Natsuko also wonders what role remains for her - as an unmarried woman who is no longer a daughter and may never be a mother. As the desire for motherhood grows in Natsuko over the years and she considers artificial insemination, she is met with resistance from society, which denies single women like her this option.
In her haunting novel, Mieko Kawakami addresses questions of gender roles and beauty norms, and what it means to lead a meaningful and self-determined life as a woman.

Actual product image Brüste und Eier (German, Paperback, Mieko Kawakami)

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