#Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

[portugalisinsa]

#going into the tags hoping i'd see some book reccs but its all discourse ;w;#well i'm not gonna claim these are all highly intellectual works but here's some of my fave adult fantasies#tainted cup by robert jackson bennett#the thief by megan whalen turner#winnowing flame trilogy by jen williams#locked tomb series by tamsym muir#goblin emperor and witness for the dead by katherine addison#a natural history of dragons by marie brennan#the mountain in the sea by Ray Naylor#god killer by hannah kaner#temeraire and scholomance by naomi novik#october daye by seanan mcguire#i'm also getting into t kingfisher books :)#gods of wyrdwood by r j barker was also good#i really need to find more books by non-white authors tho

No babe it’s so cool and hot that you always insist that fantasy books written to meet a 4th graders’ comprehension skills have more complex themes and a greater sense of praxis than anything written for adults

[genterie]

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People are willing to accept the pain and suffering of others, limitless amounts of it, as long as it helps them to keep on believing in whatever it is that they want to believe.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

In that moment all I wanted to do was hold her. To wrap myself around her. Not with words, and not with my arms. In another way entirely. In some other, undiscoverable way - I wanted to embrace her.

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami, 2020

[k1seulgi]

Even when a woman dies, she can't become a Buddha. Because women are supposedly dirty. A long time ago, all these important people wrote about how dirty women are, and why that's bad. So, basically, to become a Buddha, you have to be reborn as a man first. What the hell is that? I didn't get it, so I was like, Jun, how do you do that? She was like 'I don't know.' I asked her how she could believe any of that. It was crazy. Things got pretty awkward after that.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and eggs

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My life was life a dusty shelf in a old bookstore, where every volume was exactly where it had been for ages, the only discernible change being that my body has aged another ten ages.

— Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[sputniksweethe4rt]

[tagithi]

heaven by mieko kawakami

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[samireads]

Japanese lit 🇯🇵 ✌🏻

[rottenbooks]

BOOKS BY MIEKO KAWAKAMI

🍳 Breasts and Eggs Breasts & 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 30-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.

👁 Heaven Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

📓 All the Lovers in the Night Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.

[mydailybookquotes]

“We’re all so small, and have such little time, unable to envision the majority of the world.”

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[222hanna]

reading during golden hour is therapeutic

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At the end of the day, where is this pain that men feel coming from? In their opinion: us. It’s all our fault — whether they’re unpopular, broke, jobless. Whatever it is, they blame women for all of their failures, all their problems. Now think about women. No matter how you see it, who’s actually responsible for the majority of the pain women feel? If you think about it that way, how could a man and a woman ever see eye to eye? It’s structurally impossible.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami, 2020

[k1seulgi]

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and eggs