Abstract

This book is a collection of essays on “love". She reads 17 tales, children’s stories and classics, and releases characters from the narratives tell ‘a beauty of love’. She embraces and affirms them exposing their ugliness, humanity and richness in the unusual state of ‘loving someone’. She writes, “I want to understand that all love is weird and ugly. Because if it is not so, love can’t be my own.”

Author’s Information

Tahi Saihate is a leading Japanese poet. Her works have attracted a wide readership, particularly among women in their twenties, and have received numerous Japanese literary prizes.