Breasts and Eggs
First edition cover (Bungeishunjū, 2019) | |
| Author | Mieko Kawakami |
|---|---|
| Original title | Natsu Monogatari (夏物語) |
| Translator | Sam Bett David Boyd |
| Language | Japanese |
| Published | March/April 2019 in Bungakukai |
| Publisher | Bungeishunjū |
Publication date | 11 July 2019 (hardcover) 3 August 2021 (paperback) |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 7 April 2020 (Europa Editions) 10 June 2021 (Picador) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book |
| Pages | 552 pp. (hardcover) 656 pp. (paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-4-16-391054-3 (hardback) 978-4-16-791733-3 (paperback) |
Breasts and Eggs (Japanese: 夏物語, Hepburn: Natsu Monogatari; lit. 'Summer Stories') 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 (乳と卵; lit. 'Breasts and Eggs'), 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.