Abstract

I got married because it was what I wanted. So why is it so hard?

Yui, a translator, is spending a very happy moments with a man who is not her husband.
Eito, a chef, continues to see her though he is fully aware that she’s a married woman.
Emi, a pastry chef, is so annoyed her husband doesn't come home because he's seeing other women, her mother has nothing but complaints, her son is in a rebellious phase that she just can't take it anymore.
Though he adores his wife, Kei, a writer, has never had any idea how to make her happy.
I don't want the kind of affection that's like a moral obligation.
Men struggle with feeling bad when they cheat, but women just do it without even thinking about it.
I just want to be loved fiercely, so fiercely that it almost kills me.
This novel captures all the emotion and turmoil of a man and woman struggling for something more in an unhappy marriage, with overwhelming steam!
Fifteen years on from the Akutagawa Prize, don’t miss out on Ms. Kanehara latest great work.

Author’s Information

Born in Tokyo in 1983. Won the 27th Subaru Literary Award in 2003, and the 130th
Akutagawa Prize in 2004, both for Snakes and Earrings.The book became a bestseller,translated and published in many countries around the world. In 2010, Ms. Kanehara won the 27th Oda Sakunosuke Prize forTRIP TRAP.She relocated to Paris in 2012, in the same year winning the 22nd Bunkamura Deux Magots Literature Award for Mothers.She moved back to Japan in 2018.
translated and published in many countries around the world. In 2010, Ms. Kanehara won
the 27th Oda Sakunosuke Prize for “TRIP TRAP.” She relocated to Paris in 2012, in the same year winning the 22nd Bunkamura Deux Magots Literature Award for “Mothers.” She moved back to Japan in 2018.