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WINNER OF THE YOMIURI PRIZE FOR LITERATURE · From the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Heaven
Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.
Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.
But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism and her drive will be tested to the limit…
A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.
Praise for Mieko Kawakami
“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 The Happy Couple
“Mieko Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction.” — The New Statesman
“A new generation of readers have made Kawakami the coolest Japanese cult author since Murakami.” — The Guardian
About the author
Mieko Kawakami is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling novel Breasts and Eggs, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of Time's 10 Best Fiction Books. Her other novels include Heaven, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, and All the Lovers in the Night, a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2024, Sisters in Yellow won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Her books, translated into over forty languages, are known for their insights into the female body, and philosophical questions surrounding gender, class and ethics in modern society. Born in Osaka, Kawakami lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio.
