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Mieko Kawakami


Born
in Osaka, Japan
August 29, 1976

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Genre
Fiction


Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.

She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel Chichi to Ran (乳と卵) (Breasts and Eggs).

Kawakami has released three albums and three singles as a singer. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 224,142 ratings · 34,198 reviews · 64 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.79 avg rating — 82,657 ratings — published 2009 — 53 editions
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Breasts and Eggs
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3.85 avg rating — 76,631 ratings — published 2008 — 74 editions
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All the Lovers in the Night
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3.68 avg rating — 46,610 ratings — published 2011 — 38 editions
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あこがれ [Akogare]
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“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
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“Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. Just the beauty.”
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“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
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