{"product_id":"the-third-love-1","title":"The Third Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, 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: after loving her husband and loving Mr Takaoka, is she is ready for her third great love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1958 in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami is one of Japan's most popular contemporary novelists. She is the recipient of the Pascal Short Story Prize for New Writers and the Akutagawa Prize. Her novel \u003cem\u003eDrowning\u003c\/em\u003e won both the Ito Sei Literature Award and Joryu Bungaku Sho (Women Writers' Prize) in 2000. Her novel \u003cem\u003eManazuru\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2011 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize. \u003cem\u003eStrange Weather in Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eSensei no kaban\u003c\/em\u003e) won the Tanizaki prize in 2001 and was shortlisted for both the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTed Goossen is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at York University in Toronto and has translated many writers including Haruki Murakami.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.9 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Granta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46763867537565,"sku":"9781783788903","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/the_third_love_hiromi_kawakami_9781783788903.jpg?v=1748500226","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-third-love-1","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}