The narrator, Sonoko, a respectable young woman who is bored with
her lawyer husband, embarks on a relationship with beautiful art
student Mitsuko. Their liaison sets in motion a series of events
that have far-reaching, eventually tragic consequences. Through her
obsessive love for the clever, manipulative Mitsuko, Sonoko is
drawn into a web of lies, secrecy and deception. Matters grow
complex when Watanuki, Mitsuko's handsome but impotent boyfriend,
persuades Sonoko to enter into a pact with him whereby they agree
to 'share' Mitsuko's love. But when Mitsuko refueses to marry him
he becomes dangerously embittered and reveals all to Sonoko's
husband, who also falls under Mitsuko's spell. Coaxing and
threatening by turns, Mitsuko now exerts control over the lives of
both Sonoko and her husband in order to test their devotion to her.
They submit to her demands, seeking no other happiness but to see
her. Set in Osaka, Japan, during the 1920s, this psychological
drama epxlores the relationship between physical attraction and
power. A compelling satisfyingly, complex story. (Kirkus UK)
A seductive psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy and deceit, and a Japanese classic
Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady in an uninspiring marriage. When she decides to take an art class in town she meets the extraordinary Mitsuko, a woman as beautiful and charismatic as she is cunning. They begin a passionate affair and Sonoko soon finds herself infatuated by Mitsuko, and ensnared in a web of sex, humiliation and deceit.
With an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, author of 'Cat Person'
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