Bøger af Mieko Kawakami

From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.

A strange and beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo, from Japan's most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami

'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting TimesFrom international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All The Lovers In The Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she's confronted with a tired and spiritless woman who has failed to take control of her own life. Her one source of solace: light. Every Christmas Eve, Fuyuko heads out to catch a glimpse of the lights that fill the Tokyo night. But it is a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka that awakens something new in her. And so her life begins to change.As Fuyuko starts to see the world in a different light, painful memories from her past begin to resurface. Fuyuko needs to be loved, to be heard, and to be seen. But living in a small world of her own making, will she find the strength to bring down the walls that surround her? All The Lovers In The Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and captivating, pulsing and poetic, modern and shocking. It's another unforgettable novel from Japan's most exciting writer.Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich," and endlessly draws her portrait. When the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE."Breasts and Eggs took my breath away."-HARUKI MURAKAMIA BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazine·The New York Times·Book RiotChallenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan's most important and best-selling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is now an award-winning novelist.Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with growing up. Her silence proves a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and frustrations.On another hot summer's day ten years later, Natsu, on a journey back to her native city, struggles with her own indeterminate identity as she confronts anxieties about growing old alone and childless.Kawakami's first novella My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, published in Japan in 2007, was awarded the Tsubouchi Shoyo Prize for Young Emerging Writers. The following year, she published Breasts and Eggs as a short novella, and won praise from Yoko Ogawa and Haruki Murakami. The newly expanded Breasts and Eggs, already hailed as a "feminist masterwork" (Entertainment Weekly), is her first novel to be published in English. "Mieko Kawakami's first full-scale novel to be translated from Japanese into English reveals what a Catherine Wheel of talent she is, how unplaceable and unique. How forceful. […] The way she moves among her characters here will make clear why Breasts and Eggs is the Makioka Sisters of its time."-John Freeman in Literary Hub "Mieko Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with Breasts and Eggs."-The Economist

TARGET CONSUMER Fans of Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs Readers of the best contemporary Japanese fiction: Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Yoko Tawada, etc. The stories of working-class women are often at the center of Kawakami's novels, as such she is also reminiscent of authors like Lucia Berlin, Stepheni Danler (Sweetbitter), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joy Williams, George Saunders Blurbs solicited from Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kali Fajardo Anstine, Katie Kitamura, John Freeman, Rivka GalchenKEY SELLING POINTS Europa's lead title of the season. Freelance Publicist for press reviews, features, interviews, influencer campaign A third Kawakami novel, The Night Belongs to Lovers, coming fall 2021. Mieko Kawakami is a star on the Europa list and an author we're committed to growing and breaking out to a large readership. Major marketing, publicity, social media, bookseller outreach campaigns The media loves Mieko Kawakami. Several long features appeared around publication of Breasts and Eggs in national monthlies, women's magazines, etc. With humor, heart, and a grain of skepticism, Kawakami deals with women characters in relation to the body, class, society, sex, relationships, misogyny, work; Entertainment Weekly dubbed Breasts and Eggs a "feminist masterwork." Heaven is a poignant coming-of-age tale of friendship and resilience Strong adult-YA crossover potential (characters are 14) Devoted Kawakami fans include: Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Kali Fajardo Anstine, Katie Kitamura, John Freeman.