Sisters in Yellow

A gripping, hypnotic account of young women trying to survive in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that won't heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami.

Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial for holding a girl in captivity for many years. When Hana stumbles across a newspaper account of this shocking crime, her steady life begins to unravel. She is sent spiraling into the past. Along with two other women, she lodged with Kimiko as a student almost twenty years ago; a time in her life she has sought to forget.

As she dredges up memories of her fraught adolescence, the novel takes us back to the late 1990s — a time of economic upheaval that cast the have-nots, like Hana and Kimiko, into society’s dark underbelly. Struggling to survive in a merciless society that preys on the weak, Hana is forced to make choices that will scar her for life.

What secrets does that house hold? And could the sins of the past now stalk its former residents into the present?

Thrilling, dark and propulsive, Sisters in Yellow holds the reader like a spell or a nightmare, and marks another high for one of Japan's most celebrated young novelists.