The Third Love

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hiromi Kawakami, Hiromi (Y) Kawakami, Kawakami Hiromi
• Assisted by: Ted Goossen (Translation), Goossen Ted (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781783788873
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-887-3
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 223 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Japanese, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary