“Sisters In Yellow” by Mieko Kawakami: People Shaken by the Chaos of the 1990s and the Nature of Life
Mieko Kawakami's “The Yellow House” is a work that highlights the nature of “difficulties in living” by depicting poverty, crime, and relationships with pseudo-families in the historical background of 1990s Tokyo. Through this story, we witness the structural problems of society and the desperate individuals caught up in them. Below are some of the points that particularly impressed me.