Sisters in Yellow
$39.20
- Hardcover
448 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Deluxe Hardback edition
From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035095094 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1035095092 |
| Author: | Mieko Kawakami, Laurel Taylor, Hitomi Yoshio |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 528g |
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Critics Review
This is not the Japan you find in novels about cats, cafés and bookshops. Kawakami draws back this cosy façade to reveal the grimy reality underneath — and she does it with consummate style. With Sisters in Yellow, she proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today
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 The Happy Couple
Kawakami is emerging as one of Japan’s most prominent young literary voices, with thoughtfulness and eccentricity at the heart of her prose * Culture Trip *
A remarkable noir-tinged tale of female desperation… Kawakami scales new heights with this gripping and propulsive novel – Publishers Weekly
Mieko Kawakami
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. Her highly-acclaimed novel Heaven was described by Oprah Daily 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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