Mieko Kawakami

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Mieko Kawakami (b. 1976) is the author of Breasts and Eggs (original title: Natsu monogatari), which was selected for the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books in 2020 and Time’s 10 Best Books in 2020. Her other novels, Heaven and All the Lovers in the Night, are also forthcoming in English. She has received numerous prestigious literary awards in Japan, including the Akutagawa Prize, Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo.

Heaven: A Novel by Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
New York. Europa Editions. 2021. 192 pages. FORTY-SIX-YEAR OLD Mieko Kawakami refuses to trivialize the agony of adolescence; instead she bears witness to it. She has described her o…
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
New York. Europa Editions. 2020. 448 pages. READERS OF THE WORK under review might be forgiven for thinking that they were enjoying Kawakami Mieko’s (b. 1976) Breasts and Eg…
Marie’s Proof of Love

Winter 2021
Mieko Kawakami
“I love you" by @Doug88888 / flickr People believe, Marie thinks, even when there’s no proof. You believe because you imagine. But is imagination enough to live by? Die. Th…
Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami
London. Pushkin Press. 2018. 92 pages.Ms Ice Sandwich is a delightful novella by Akutagawa Prize winner Mieko Kawakami (b. 1976) that asks us to join an unnamed narrator, with an obsessive in…