Love, Love

About This Novel

This book contains 11 representative essays and novels by Kanoko Okamoto. In essays such as "Law for the Promotion of Loving Family", "Written to Ippei" and "Written to My Son in Paris", we see how Okamoto Kanoko looks back on her relatives and her own life. The heroines in his novels have distinct and different personalities: in "The Fifty-Three Times on the Road to the East", a woman who married and had children according to fate, and had an ordinary but smooth life; in "Her Morning", a mother who deeply loves her son who is far away in Paris with her husband. In "The House Spirit", the chuunin follows fate and imagines who will be his slutty husband and who will be the boss lady of the man who comforts him with his life; in "Lisette the Whore", the prostitute uses her hard-earned money to support a man who she loves and hates and who does not do her job properly. Each heroine seems to reflect a part of Okamoto Kanoko, and the author projects herself into the fictional characters. The whole book includes "The Method of Promoting Love of Family", "Okamoto Ippei's Theory", "Letter to Ippei", "Written to the Son in Paris", "Her Morning", "Exotic Food Notes", "Fifty-Three Times on the Tokaido Road", "Family Spirit", "Buying Tofu", "Lisette the Prostitute" and "Carp".

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