Sisters In Yellow

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

Mieko Kawakami (1976) es autora del best-seller internacional Pechos y huevos, elegido como uno de los libros del año en The New York Times y uno de los 10 mejores libros de 2020 en TIME. Nacida en Osaka, Kawakami hizo su debut literario como poeta en 2006 y publicó su primera novela, My Ego, My Teeth, and the World, en 2007. Su literatura ha sido alabada por el tono poético con el que aborda temas como el cuerpo femenino, las cuestiones éticas y los dilemas de la sociedad moderna. Sus obras han sido traducidas a diferentes idiomas y ha recibido numerosos premios literarios en Japón, como el Premio Akutagawa, el Premio Tanizaki y el Premio Murasaki Shikibu. Vive en Tokio, Japón.