What's Left of Me is Yours
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'A BRILLIANT DEBUT' LOUISE DOUGHTYWithin the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as wakaresaseya - agents who, for a fee, can be hired by one spouse to seduce the other and provide grounds for divorce on favourable terms. Inspired by a real case, this is the story of Kaitaro Nakamura, a wakaresaseya agent, who is hired by a man to seduce his wife. Kaitaro falls in love with his target, Rina, and after the divorce she moves in with him, unaware of his role in the demise of her marriage. Inevitably, however, the truth resurfaces... with tragic consequences.
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We erase events from our lives, experiences that do not fit in with the storeys we tell ourselves. Still, there are some memories that hover on the periphery. They reach out to you from another time and transform a moment of joy into one of shame. From then on these recollections stay with you. They linger on the edge of your vision and say, “Look at what you are.”
Inspired by a true crime, a mystery/romance about a woman digging into her mother's past with the wakaresaseya (a professional agent specializing in breaking up relationships) hired by her father to seduce her mother to gain leverage in divorce proceedings. I liked the mystery, the romance development not so much. But I liked the way this explored that thin line between passionate love and obsessive love. As the author said in the acknowledgments, it's about “how we love, and what we are capable of doing to each other for love.”
