Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick of living inside her dreams.
Now, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the 17th century, and then as a serving lady to a princess in the late Middle Ages. As she experiences desire and heartbreak in the past, so Riko comes to reconsider her life as a 21st-century woman - as a wife, as a mother, and as a lover - and to ask herself: after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, is she is ready for her third great love?
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781783788903
Number of pages: 288
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
I’ve read all of Hiromi Kawakami’s books that have been released in English so far, and I love the often dreamlike quality to them.
With The Third Love, we step directly into that dream world, and live different...
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A story in which Riko marries her childhood sweetheart then has epic daydreams which take her first to C17 Japan where she’s a prostitute in the Tokyo pleasure district then as a servant to a C9 Japanese princess. In... More
A strange and beautiful little book about a woman whose obsession with the man who becomes her husband starts to twist into her dreams, taking her into a dream world that may not actually be a dream, where she... More
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