As 2021 approaches, six Japan Times book reviewers look back on their top reads released in English this year.
Breasts and Eggs, Fiction, Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd), Picador, 432 pages
Our critics’ favorite books published in 2020
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