Mieko Kawakami

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction

A quixotic and funny tale about first love - from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.A boy is obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches. He goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at her face. She is beautiful to him, and he ca...

• Apr-2020
• / Literary

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.“Breasts and Eggs took my breath away.” -- HARUKI MURAKAMIA BEST BOOK OF 2020TIME Magazine・The ...

• Jun-2021
• / Psychological Suspense

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity.A bold for...

• May-2022
• / Psychological Suspense

“What makes [this] novel so brilliant is an understanding of why women might willingly adhere to . . . performative femininity, even while they criticize it.” -- -- Jo Hamya, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the internatio...

• Mar-2026
• / Literary

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, a world rapidly dividing into haves and have-nots....