Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami review – an interrogation of the female condition
Casual intimacies and dreamlike interludes in a bestselling Japanese author’s exploration of freedom and the female body
August 2020
Mieko Kawakami: 'Women are no longer content to shut up'
Traditionalists in Japan hated her feminist novel, but Breasts and Eggs was a huge bestseller. The author talks about taking on male privilege, orientalist cliches … and Haruki Murakami
