Summer Story
About This Novel
I can't decide my birth, but I can decide whether to become a mother. A women's novel that sincerely explores the meaning of "life" and is full of thoughts. Published and distributed in more than 40 countries, Mieiko Kawakami's new masterpiece confronts various difficulties in life and explores female body autonomy. "The Story of Summer" is the sequel to the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel "Breasts and Eggs" by Mieiko Kawakami, and is divided into two parts. The first half rewrites "Breasts and Eggs", adding new plots and dividing chapters based on the original. The second half tells that eight years later, Natsuko, who aspired to become a writer, finally published a collection of short stories and began to make a living through writing. However, the 38-year-old Natsuko, who had no partner, suddenly "wanted to see her own child" strongly, and she began to look for ways to have a child out of wedlock. Along the way, she met a variety of people, from single mothers to people born through artificial insemination. These people shook Xia Zi's hope and prompted her to have new thinking about fertility and the meaning of life. As a sequel to "Breasts and Eggs", this book inherits the unique literary expression and ideological connotation of the previous work, and provides a more in-depth description of the living conditions of women, especially young women, their emotional world, and the issues they care about, and provides guidance for their careers, families, and futures.
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