Hiromi Kawakami The Third Love (Hardback)

The Third LoveHiromi KawakamiLabel: Granta BooksDescription: 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.