by Mieko Kawakami · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432239021
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On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels to Tokyo to visit her sister Natsu. Unable to accept the changes in her body after giving birth, Makiko is obsessed with the idea of undergoing breast augmentation surgery. Meanwhile, her twelve-year-old daughter Midoriko lives paralyzed by the fear of puberty and feels unable to express herself beyond a notebook. Natsu, on the other hand, is thirty years old, an aspiring writer, and struggles with her own identity by being neither a 'daughter' nor a 'mother'. Gathered in a working-class neighborhood in Tokyo, they will spend a few days together in which Midoriko's silence will be a catalyst for them to confront their fears, many of them imposed by being a woman in today's society, and their family secrets. Mieko Kawakami, sponsored by Haruki Murakami and Elena Ferrante, combines comedy and realism to paint a portrait of the femininity of the contemporary working class.
