乳と卵

Makiko, a bar hostess of thirty-nine, comes up from Osaka to the narrator's small Tokyo apartment, set on breast enlargement surgery. With her is her daughter Midoriko, on the edge of puberty, who has stopped speaking to her mother and answers only in writing, filling notebooks with her fears about a body that is starting to change and her criticisms of Makiko. The narrator, Makiko's younger sister, watches the two and worries. Over three hot days told in a breathless Osaka voice, bodies, words and the bond between mother and daughter collide.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

138 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Japan

First published

2007 by Bungeishunju

Author's age

31 when first published

ISBN

9784163270104 (original)

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