夏物語

aka Natsu Monogatari;

Breasts and Eggs

Author

Mieko Kawakami

Language

Japanese

Year

2019

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

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Breasts and Eggs is a novel by Mieko Kawakami, published by Bungeishunjū in July 2019. It features a completely rewritten version of Kawakami's 2008 novella Chichi to Ran , but uses the same characters and settings. An English translation was published in 2020, under the original novella's translated title of Breasts and Eggs. It is a completely different work from the novella, which has not been translated into English. The novel received the 73rd Mainichi Publication Culture Award.