{"product_id":"the-third-love-isbn-9781593768379","title":"The Third Love:A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present—from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in the twenty-first century—by one of our most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, each night, she sinks into another life: first as a high-ranking courtesan in the seventeenth 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 twenty-first-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 ready for her third great love. | \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, A Most Anticipated Book of the Fall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[K]awakami herself invents a narrative language that traverses timelines and dialects, by which a surrealist depiction of a woman’s coming-of-age emerges . . . [W]hat her protagonist discovers reads as radically feminist to me, a way of living that no longer privileges the role of wife over that of friend, daughter, mother, intellectual compatriot, co-conspirator.\" —Emmeline Clein, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Third Love \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the ways identities can shift with various forms of knowledge, and if we're lucky we'll end up more worldly and stronger for it.\" —Maris Kreizman, \u003ci\u003eThe Maris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Weaves historical fiction, Japanese literary icons, and meditations on love into a novel that’s remarkable on many levels.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thanks to the book’s splendid dreamworlds, it unfolds at the scale of a saga . . . In the mystical, immersive novel \u003ci\u003eThe Third Love\u003c\/i\u003e, heady dreams offer new insights into the waking world.\" —Meg Nola, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The scintillating latest from Kawakami . . . Readers will be transported.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cb\u003eHIROMI KAWAKAMI\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1958. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eKamisama\u003c\/i\u003e (God), was published in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded the Akutagawa Prize for “Hebi o Fumu” (“A Snake Stepped On”), and in 2001, she won the Tanizaki Prize for her novel \u003ci\u003eSensei no Kaban \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e), which became an international bestseller. \u003ci\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Kawakami has contributed to editions of Granta in both the U.K. and Japan and is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists. Her previous novel in English translation, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Eye of the Big Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, was short-listed for the International Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTED GOOSSEN\u003c\/b\u003e taught Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He is the general editor of\u003ci\u003e The Oxford Book of Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, the co-editor of the literary journal \u003ci\u003eMonkey\u003c\/i\u003e, and has published translations of Hiromi Kawakami, Yoko Ogawa and Naoya Shiga, among others. He translated Haruki Murakami’s \u003ci\u003eWind\/Pinball\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Library\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) \u003ci\u003eMen Without Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKilling Commendatore\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759523410149,"sku":"NP9781593768379","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593768379.jpg?v=1775598879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-third-love-isbn-9781593768379","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}