Mieko Kawakami: Sisters in Yellow — London

One of Japan's most celebrated authors, Mieko Kawakami makes a rare UK visit to present Sisters in Yellow — a gripping, stylish noir set in the shadowy underbelly of 1990s Tokyo.

Hana is fifteen, hopeful, and living in a tiny Tokyo apartment with her mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that becomes a haven for Hana — but in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems.

Mieko Kawakami is the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven. Sisters in Yellow won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in Japan.

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