'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 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...
'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female...
My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful.
She’s fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security.
Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana’s dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting...
My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Book...
