The Third Love - Hiromi Kawakami

The Third Love

By: Hiromi Kawakami, Ted Goossen (Translator)

Paperback | 2 July 2024

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From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny.

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, 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.

And so, 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 whether, after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, she is now ready for her third great love.

About the Author

HIROMI KAWAKAMI is an award-winning Japanese writer, whose fiction includes Strange Weather in Tokyo, The Nakano Thrift Shop, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino and People From My Neighbourhood.

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