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Book review: Hiromi Kawakami’s The Third Love is a time-bending meditation on romance
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In The Third Love, Hiromi Kawakami has spun an ambitious narrative of how the ideas of love, desire, sex, and heartbreak have shifted through the ages.
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The Third Love $26.24
By Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen
Fiction/Granta/Paperback/288 pages/
Riko, a contemporary Tokyoite, has traditional ideas about romance. She is smitten with Naruya Haruda, or affectionately Naa-chan, who is 10 years older, when she is just two years old and eventually marries him.
