Twinkle Twinkle
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932234012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-15 |
| Language | : | Japanese |
DESCRIPTION:
Playing at marriage This book is deceptively simple. The narrative voice alternates between Shoko, the wife, and Mutsuki, the husband. Shoko and Mutsuki have a marriage of convenience so they can quiet the demands of their parents and present a "normal" front to the outside world. Actually, Shoko is a depressed alcholi. "Love is never simple, but" according to R. Getter. This is a story of a marriage of convenience. Mutsuki is a handsome young doctor, successful in his career and deeply in love with his boyfriend, Kon. Shoko is appropriately pretty, but incredibly neurotic, insecure and moody but manages to cope, in a way, through regular doses of alcohol. Neither h. normal-bizarre love triangle A Customer I just saw Ms. Kaori Ekuni interviewed and reading at an Author's Festival in Toronto Canada, and was mesmerized by her book and message. She is a pretty woman who is not as shy as her voice makes her out.Not only is Ms. Ekuni a charming woman who knows how to say what she thinks succinctly, she is
. In addition to being a prolific novelist and essayist, Ekuni is a skilled translator of children's books. She lives in Tokyo. Twinkle Twinkle, her first novel, won the Murasaki Shikibu Literary Award and was a bestseller. Kaori Ekuni is one of Japan's most popular and admired writers
- Lambda Lit ReviewBright and clear…(Twinkle Twinkle) is modern, charming, and thoroughly enjoyable. Simultaneously seductive and elusiveEkuni serves up an array of subtly nuanced emotion. - The GuardianThis book is simple. This book is a pearlTwinkle Twinkle is totally earnest, and absolutely surprising." - BUST Magazine
Since the conspirators' parents know of their own child's undesirability, but not the spouse's, the union manages to please them. Mutsuki is stictly gay and has a boyfriend, while Shoko is a clinical case of emotional instability who's in no shape for a relationship. They haven't had sex yet and they don't intend to. And while the newlyweds hope, in their own way, to live happily ever after, they inevitably come face t o face with the fact that no marriage real or staged, is a fairy tale.. They've each found in the other a perfect partner for a sham marriage. They got married ten days ago. As it turned out, the only way to make their parents get off their backs about trying to "find someone" was actually finding somone--with whom to put marriage for show