Breasts and Eggs

A New York Times book to watch 'Breathtaking' Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 'Radical' Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation 'Uncommon precision' Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police 'Bold, modern and surprising' An Yu, author of Braised Pork 'Incredible and propulsive' Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery.