Лучшие произведения Миэко Каваками

A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, 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. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their…

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she's confronted with a tired and spiritless woman who has failed to take control of her own life. Her one source of solace: light. Every Christmas Eve, Fuyuko heads out to catch a glimpse of the lights that fill the Tokyo night. But it is a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka that awakens something new in her. And so her life begins to change. As Fuyuko starts to see the world in a different light, painful…

Действие рассказа происходит в безымянном городке, в глубокой провинции. У героини два имени: бывшее и новое, но читателям эти имена не сообщаются. Да и все остальные действующие лица тоже безымянны. Имя есть только у одного человека, но воспоминания о нём героиня полностью стерла из своей памяти.

A captivating short story "March Yarn" by Mieko Kawakami, which motivated the editors to name their book after this short story. "March Yarn," not only captures the hopes and dreams of the Japanese after 3.11, but also the anxiety from the situation they are in. To readers, it might seem that all the Japanese have a clear view of hope in their minds, but deep inside they are panicking knowing that not everything they imagine will go smoothly.