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A review by brice_mo
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
3.0
I appreciate Mieko Kawakami's thematic concerns, and I think she addresses them thoroughly and thoughtfully, but like Heaven, the story just seems to lumber clumsily around. It alternates between near plotlessness and moments where everything happens at once. This is a fairly lengthy novel with the sensibilities of a short story.
Like many other reviewers, I think the original novella embedded in Breasts and Eggs is a lot stronger than the rest of book, so I wonder if these are editorial and translation issues more than an authorial weaknesses.
Like many other reviewers, I think the original novella embedded in Breasts and Eggs is a lot stronger than the rest of book, so I wonder if these are editorial and translation issues more than an authorial weaknesses.