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A gripping, hypnotic account of young women making their way in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that won't heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami. Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial for holding a girl in captivity for many years. When Hana stumbles across a newspaper account of this shocking crime, her steady life begins to unravel. She is sent spiraling into the past. Along with two other women, she lodged with Kimiko as a student almost twenty years ago; a time in her life she has sought to forget. As she dredges up memories of her fraught adolescence, the novel takes us back to the late 1990s - a time of economic upheaval that cast the have-nots, like Hana and Kimiko, into society's dark underbelly. Struggling to survive in a merciless society that preys on the weak, Hana is forced to make choices that will scar her for life. What happened in that house? And could the sins of the past now stalk them into the present? Thrilling, dark and propulsive, Sisters in Yellow holds the reader like a spell or a nightmare, and marks another high for one of Japan's most celebrated young novelists.

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Mieko Kawakami, Japan’s literary It Girl, has a heavy new novel out about money and desperation. * The Japan Times *

Mieko Kawakami, Japan’s literary It Girl, has a heavy new novel out about money and desperation. * The Japan Times * I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami -- Haruki Murakami Mieko Kawakami is a genius -- Naoise Dolan, author of <i>The Happy Couple</i> Kawakami is emerging as one of Japan's most prominent young literary voices * Culture Trip *

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Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Breasts and Eggs, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME's Best 10 Books of 2020, and the highly-acclaimed Heaven, her second novel to be translated and published in English, which Oprah Daily described as written ""with jagged, visceral beauty."" Born in Osaka, Japan, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet in 2006, and in 2007 published her first novella, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World. Known for their poetic qualities, their insights into the female body, and their preoccupation with ethics and modern society, her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Kawakami's literary awards include the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize. She lives in Tokyo, Japan.

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