Sisters in yellow : a novel / Mieko Kawakami ; translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- Author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Laurel (Translator), translator.

Yoshio, Hitomi, 1979- translator.

Standardized Title:

Kiiroi ie. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/ef457c52-8d67-6873-ac4b-214ee52a2699

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Tokyo (Japan)--Fiction.

Tokyo (Japan).

Communal living--Fiction.

Communal living.

Money--Fiction.

Money.

Nineteen nineties--Fiction.

Nineteen nineties.

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Friendship--Fiction.

Friendship.

Japanese fiction--21st century.

Japanese fiction.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Noir fiction.

Physical Description:

429 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

"Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, a world rapidly dividing into haves and have-nots. All of them are fleeing something. Growing up without a father, Hana's tired of the pity in her classmates' eyes, and finds a flashier mother figure in Kimiko. Kimiko is older than Hana's mother but seems much younger, chatting easily about school and boys and wanting a better life. Fate throws them together with two more young women--bruised but not broken by life. Together the four set out to remake their lives, fighting predatory lenders, organized criminals, and plain bad luck as they open a bar called Lemon. Keeping the business going, and trying to take care of each other, forms the core of this enrapturing novel. It is a story of startling reversals and vivid portraits of the matriarchy of Tokyo nightlife and its adjacent criminal underclasses. From the bar owners to the aging hostesses to the young street touts coaxing people off the street to places like Lemon, everyone wants a chance at renewal, but can everyone get it? Narrated by Hana in Kawakami's trademark evocatively poetic style and paced like a noir, Sisters in Yellow will be the literary blockbuster of the season. This epic of friendship and betrayal is the kind of book one longs to return to when away from it: a world until itself, and a book that makes you think while it produces immensities of feeling. It is a major novel that, like so many of the best recent phenomena - from Donna Tartt to Hanya Yanigahara - explores how we survive (or don't) together"-- Provided by publisher.

"Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, a world rapidly dividing into haves and have-nots. All of them are fleeing something. Growing up without a father, Hana's tired of the pity in her classmates' eyes, and finds a flashier mother figure in Kimiko. Kimiko is older than Hana's mother but seems much younger, chatting easily about school and boys and wanting a better life. Fate throws them together with two more young women-bruised but not broken by life. Together the four set out to remake their lives, fighting predatory lenders, organized criminals, and plain bad luck as they open a bar called Lemon. Keeping the business going, and trying to take care of each other, forms the core of this enrapturing novel. It is a story of startling reversals and vivid portraits of the matriarchy of Tokyo nightlife and its adjacent criminal underclasses. From the bar owners to the aging hostesses to the young street touts coaxing people off the street to places like Lemon, everyone wants a chance at renewal, but can everyone get it? Narrated by Hana in Kawakami's trademark evocatively poetic style and paced like a noir, Sisters in Yellow will be the literary blockbuster of the season. This epic of friendship and betrayal is the kind of book one longs to return to when away from it: a world until itself, and a book that makes you think while it produces immensities of feeling. It is a major novel that, like so many of the best recent phenomena - from Donna Tartt to Hanya Yanigahara - explores how we survive (or don't) together"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally pubished in Japanese as Kiiroi ie by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc. in 2023.

"A Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version Kawakami, Mieko, 1976- Sisters in yellow

ISBN:

9780593537732

0593537734

OCLC:

1527150906